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The Lawley (Summit)
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0089
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0089 (89)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Longnor
- National Grid reference
- SO 494974
- Latitude
- 52.57213
- Longitude
- -2.74759
- Altitude
- 377 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (1979); Other (2009); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008490
- HER
- Shropshire 2541
- National record
- record SO 49 NE 28; monument 109182
- Wikidata
- Q31113470
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.
- Guilbert, G.C. 1975. Planned hillfort interiors, Proc Prehist Soc, 41, 203-21.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 360, Institute of Historical Research.