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Wart Hill
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0094
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0094 (94)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hopesay
- National Grid reference
- SO400847
- Latitude
- 52.45759
- Longitude
- -2.88342
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.99 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1968); Other (1973); Other (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1978-1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shropshire 1349
- National record
- record SO 48 SW 1; monument 109030
- Wikidata
- Q31113420
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, 364, Institute of Historical Research.