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Ratlinghope Hill Camp

Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0080

Location

Atlas number
EN0080 (80)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Shropshire
Historic county
Shropshire
Parish, community, or townland
Ratlinghope
National Grid reference
SO 406973
Latitude
52.57038
Longitude
-2.87723
Altitude
350 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.72 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (2009); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1007697
HER
Shropshire 186
National record
record SO 49 NW 9; monument 109213
Wikidata
Q31113398

Sources

References

  1. Cunliffe, B. 1991. Iron Age communiies in Britain, London: Routledge, 3rd Edn.
  2. 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.
  3. Guilbert, G.C. 1975. Ratlinghope/Stitt Hill, Shropshire: Earthwork enclosures and cross-dykes, Bull Board of Celt Stud, XXIV, 363-73.
  4. Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 357 Institute of Historical Research.