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Colstey Bank
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0065
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0065 (65)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clun
- National Grid reference
- SO304840
- Latitude
- 52.45035
- Longitude
- -3.02448
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1976); Other (1981); Other (2012); Other (1976-1987); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 106239
- HER
- Shropshire 177
- National record
- record SO 38 SW
- Wikidata
- Q31113280
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.