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Coed y Gaer, Oswestry
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0064
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0064 (64)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid reference
- SJ 232289
- Latitude
- 52.85283
- Longitude
- -3.14133
- Altitude
- 362 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1971); Other (1981); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1981-1983); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006279
- HER
- Shropshire 1118
- National record
- record SJ 22 NW1; monument 65991
- Wikidata
- Q31113269
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, 376, Institute of Historical Research.