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Upper Knuck Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0087
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0087 (87)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mainstone
- National Grid reference
- SO 256862
- Latitude
- 52.46862
- Longitude
- -3.09629
- Altitude
- 380 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1973); Other (1981); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1993-1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021279
- HER
- Shropshire 744
- National record
- record SO 28 NE 3; monument 105248
- Wikidata
- Q31113465
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, 356, Institute of Historical Research.