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The Burgs
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0085
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0085 (85)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bayston Hill
- National Grid reference
- SJ 489087
- Latitude
- 52.67406
- Longitude
- -2.75650
- Altitude
- 88 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, timber-laced wall, and other burning
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1962); Other (1979); Other (1993); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1978-1979); Other (1980-1982); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003016
- HER
- Shropshire 60
- National record
- record SJ 40 NE 3; monument 67626
- Wikidata
- Q31113433
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, 375, Institute of Historical Research.