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Walton Camp
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0093
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0093 (93)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid reference
- SJ 300057
- Latitude
- 52.64475
- Longitude
- -3.03522
- Altitude
- 229 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Hollow Way (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1899); Other (1971); Other (1981); Geophysical Survey (1999); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021277
- HER
- Shropshire 1361
- National record
- record SJ 30 NW 2; monument 66348
- Wikidata
- Q31113490
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, 370, Institute of Historical Research.