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The Ditches, Mogg Forest
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0086
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0086 (86)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rushbury
- National Grid reference
- SO 562942
- Latitude
- 52.54425
- Longitude
- -2.64636
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006284
- HER
- Shropshire 357
- National record
- record SO 59 SE 1; monument 111407
- Wikidata
- Q31113448
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, 337, Institute of Historical Research.