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Wall Camp, Kynnersley
Shropshire, England · Atlas EN0092
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0092 (92)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kynnersley
- National Grid reference
- SJ680177
- Latitude
- 52.75674
- Longitude
- -2.47417
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 1, SW 5, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1976); Other (1981); Excavation (1983); Geophysical Survey (2008); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1962-1965); Other (1979-1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020282
- HER
- Shropshire 1108
- National record
- record SJ 61 NE 14; monument 72186
- Wikidata
- Q31113487
Sources
References
- Bond, D.M. 1991. An excavation at Wall Camp, Kynnersley, Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc, 67, 98-107.
- 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.
- Malim, C. 2013. The Wall. Prehistoric fort or monumental labyrinth? Brit Archaeol, May/June 2013, 33-7.
- Page, W. ed. 1908. Victoria County History of Shropshire, 1, 374, Institute of Historical Research.