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Haughmond Hill Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0069
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0069 (69)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Uffington
- National Grid reference
- SJ 537137
- Latitude
- 52.71970
- Longitude
- -2.68645
- Altitude
- 132 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Passage-way/Corridor (South); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (2012); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021282
- HER
- Shropshire 135
- National record
- record SJ 51 SW7; monument 70494
- Wikidata
- Q31113323
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.