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Pontesford Hill Camp
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0078
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0078 (78)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pontesbury
- National Grid reference
- SJ 408055
- Latitude
- 52.64465
- Longitude
- -2.87539
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1963); Other (2009); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019829
- HER
- Shropshire 1055
- National record
- record SJ 40 NW 4; monument 67697
- Wikidata
- Q31113378
Sources
References
- Barker, P. 1972. The emergency excavation at Pontesford Hill Camp 1963. In Lynch, F. and Burgess, C. (eds.) Prehistoric man in Wales and the west, 345-53, plan, Bath: Adams and Dart.
- 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.