Location
- Atlas number
- EN0067 (67)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uffington
- National Grid reference
- SJ 546164
- Latitude
- 52.74370
- Longitude
- -2.67375
- Altitude
- 92 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Excavation (1943); Excavation (1977); Other (2012); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021283
- HER
- Shropshire 113
- National record
- record SJ 51 NW 7; monument 70355
- Wikidata
- Q31113302
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, 381, Institute of Historical Research.
- Stanford, S.C. 1985: Ebury Hill Camp - excavations 1977, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, LXIV, 9-12.