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Preston Springs
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0355
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0355 (355)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moreton Corbet with lee Brockhurst
- National Grid reference
- SJ539270
- Latitude
- 52.83908
- Longitude
- -2.68575
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1979); Other (1981); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shropshire 2673
- National record
- record SJ 52 NW 11; monument 70709
- Wikidata
- Q31113446
Sources
References
- None available.