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Pave Lane
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0077
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0077 (77)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chetwynd Aston
- National Grid reference
- SJ 756164
- Latitude
- 52.74515
- Longitude
- -2.36232
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and roads or tracks
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1990); Geophysical Survey (1990); Other (2012); Other (1977-1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020275
- HER
- Shropshire 3446
- National record
- record SJ 71 NE 17; monument 73890
- Wikidata
- Q31113377
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.
- Smith, G.H. 1990: Chetwyn Aston. SAM SA352 CEU Site 455, Archaeological Assessment. Excavation Report.