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Earl's Hill
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0066
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0066 (66)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pontesbury
- National Grid reference
- SJ 40880483
- Latitude
- 52.63801
- Longitude
- -2.87496
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial 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
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, vitrification, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Out-turned (North east); Outworks (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1971); Other (1978); Other (1998); Other (2009); Excavation (2011); Other (2012); Other (1981-1987); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020152
- HER
- Shropshire 1050
- National record
- record SJ 40 SW 1; monument 67797
- Wikidata
- Q31113290
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. Salop 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 345, Institute of Historical Research.
- Watson 2002: Shropshire an archaeological guide, 26-8, aerial photo, Shrewsbury: Shropshire Books.