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Ritton Castle
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0356
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0356 (356)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid reference
- SO34449765
- Latitude
- 52.57268
- Longitude
- -2.96882
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1882); Other (1973); Other (1981); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020150
- HER
- Shropshire 1327
- National record
- record SO 39 NW 6; monument 107460
- Wikidata
- Q31113495
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.
- Hogg, A. H. A. and King, D .J. C. 1963. Early Castles in Wales and the Marches, Arch Camb, 112, 77-124.