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Castle Frome

Herefordshire, England · Atlas EN0349

Location

Atlas number
EN0349 (349)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Herefordshire
Historic county
Herefordshire
Parish, community, or townland
Castle Frome
National Grid reference
SO671457
Latitude
52.10903
Longitude
-2.48174
Altitude
155 m

Form and condition

Type
level-terrain fort
Condition
Likely destroyed
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ditches
0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Entrance forms
In-turned (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
Aspect
west
Land use
woodland and scrub or bracken

Dating

Dating
400 BC–AD 50 and after AD 800
Dating evidence
Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
Dating reliability
C - Low

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1001739
HER
Herefordshire 930
National record
record SO 64 NE 5; monument 112198
Wikidata
Q31114265

Sources

References

  1. RCHME 1932. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 2, 49, London: HMSO.
  2. White, P. 2011. The Frome Valley, Herefordshire: Archaeology, Landscape Change and Conservation, Herefordshire Studies in Archaeology: Series 3. Herefordshire Archaeology.