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Castle Ring, Stitt Hill
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0059
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0059 (59)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ratlinghope
- National Grid reference
- SO 404977
- Latitude
- 52.57467
- Longitude
- -2.87975
- Altitude
- 400 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.92 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1987); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1972-1973); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007698
- HER
- Shropshire 187
- National record
- record SO 49 NW 7; monument 109205
- Wikidata
- Q31113250
Sources
References
- Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council.
- Guilbert, G.C. 1975. Ratlinghope/Stitt Hill, Shropshire: Earthwork enclosures and cross-dykes, Bull Board of Celt Stud, XXIV, 363-73.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 358, Institute of Historical Research.