Home / England / Shropshire / Castle Ring, Horderley
Castle Ring, Horderley
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0057
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0057 (57)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edgton
- National Grid reference
- SO 401869
- Latitude
- 52.47650
- Longitude
- -2.88300
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1972); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1981-1986); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013511
- HER
- Shropshire 173
- National record
- record SO 48 NW 8; monument 108915
- Wikidata
- Q31113229
Sources
References
- Page, W. ed. Salop 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 355-56, Institute of Historical Research.