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Caynham Camp
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0061
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0061 (61)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caynham
- National Grid reference
- SO 544737
- Latitude
- 52.35964
- Longitude
- -2.66945
- Altitude
- 174 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-laced wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14 and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885); Other (1968); Other (1981); Other (1994); Other (2012); Excavation (1957-1961); Other (1981-1988); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010313
- HER
- Shropshire 419
- National record
- record SO 57 SW 13; monument 111086
- Wikidata
- Q31113260
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.
- Gelling, P.S. 1959. Excavations at Caynham Camp near Ludlow, First Interim Report, Trans Woolhope Natur Fld Club, 56, 2, 145-48.
- Gelling, P.S. 1961. Excavations at Caynham Camp, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, 56, 1957-60, 218-27.
- Gelling, P.S. 1966. Excavations at Caynham Camp near Ludlow, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, 57, 1961-64, 91-100.