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Roveries Hill Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0083
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0083 (83)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lydham
- National Grid reference
- SO 325924
- Latitude
- 52.52604
- Longitude
- -2.99583
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, berm, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west); In-turned (South east); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (2012); 1st Identified Written Reference (1665-1693); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1935-1939); Excavation (1960-1963); Other (1993-2000); Other (2013-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011023
- HER
- Shropshire 1221
- National record
- record SO 39 SW4; monument 107542
- Wikidata
- Q31113414
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.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 366, Institute of Historical Research.