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Caus Castle
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0060
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0060 (60)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Westbury
- National Grid reference
- SJ337078
- Latitude
- 52.66382
- Longitude
- -2.98178
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2012); Geophysical Survey (2015); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020147
- HER
- Shropshire 249
- National record
- record SJ 30 NW 1; monument 66343
- Wikidata
- Q31113256
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.