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Chesterton Walls
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0062
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0062 (62)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Worfield
- National Grid reference
- SO 786967
- Latitude
- 52.56769
- Longitude
- -2.31626
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 9.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1979); Other (1981); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1972-1982); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021065
- HER
- Shropshire 433
- National record
- record SO 79 NE 3; monument 114486
- Wikidata
- Q31113261
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.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 377-78, Institute of Historical Research.