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Robury Ring
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0081
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0081 (81)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wentnor
- National Grid reference
- SO 398932
- Latitude
- 52.53349
- Longitude
- -2.88897
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- south and southwest
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1990); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021072
- HER
- Shropshire 456
- National record
- record SO 39 SE 1; monument 107489
- Wikidata
- Q31113409
Sources
References
- Hughes, E.G. and Jones, L. 1990. Archaeological field survey and excavation Robury Ring, Shropshire, Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit Archaeological Evaluation Report, Birmingham: Birmingham University.