Location
- Atlas number
- EN0076 (76)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great Ness
- National Grid reference
- SJ 386197
- Latitude
- 52.77223
- Longitude
- -2.91069
- Altitude
- 139 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1 ha, 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1953-1956); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020285
- HER
- Shropshire 1087
- National record
- record SJ 31 NE 1; monument 66453
- Wikidata
- Q31113367
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.
- Hume, C.R. and Jones, G.W. 1959. Excavations at Nesscliffe Hill Trans Shropshire Archaeol Soc, 56, 129-32.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 355-56, Institute of Historical Research.