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Clee Burf
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0063
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0063 (63)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wheathill
- National Grid reference
- SO 593843
- Latitude
- 52.45544
- Longitude
- -2.59997
- Altitude
- 490 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (2012); Other (2014); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shropshire 181
- National record
- record SO 58 SE 1; monument 111281
- Wikidata
- Q31113190
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, 371, Institute of Historical Research.
- Rowley, T. 2001. The Welsh border, 200, Stroud: Tempus.