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The Berth
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0084
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0084 (84)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Baschurch
- National Grid reference
- SJ 430236
- Latitude
- 52.80768
- Longitude
- -2.84672
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Other (1977); Other (1981); Other (1994); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1962-1963); Other (1978-1982); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004770
- HER
- Shropshire 129
- National record
- record SJ 42 SW 1; monument 68578
- Wikidata
- Q31113415
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.
- Gelling and Stanford 1967. Dark Age pottery and Iron Age ovens, Trans Birmingham Archaeol Soc, 32, 77.
- Morris, E.L and Gelling, P. 1991: A note on The Berth, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, LXVII, 58-62;
- Watson, M. 2002: Shropshire. An archaeological guide, 18-19, aerial photo, Shrewsbury: Shropshire Books.