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Norton Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0074
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0074 (74)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Culmington
- National Grid reference
- SO447820
- Latitude
- 52.43265
- Longitude
- -2.81404
- Altitude
- 294 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 4, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 6.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Out-turned (East); In-turned (South east); Out-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- east and level
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021073
- HER
- Shropshire 158
- National record
- record SO 48 SW 13; monument 109058
- Wikidata
- Q31113343
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, 373-74, Institute of Historical Research.