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Stevenshill
Shropshire, England ยท Atlas EN0357
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0357 (357)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Shropshire
- Historic county
- Shropshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cound
- National Grid reference
- SJ556036
- Latitude
- 52.62873
- Longitude
- -2.65607
- Altitude
- 92 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Out-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977); Other (1980); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Shropshire 1438
- National record
- record SJ 50 SE 28; monument 70198
- Wikidata
- Q31113452
Sources
References
- Burrow, I. 1977. Article in West Midlands Archaeological News Sheet, W Midlands Archaeol News Sht, Vol 20, 29.
- 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.