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The Mount, Beoley
Worcestershire, England · Atlas EN0362
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0362 (362)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Beoley
- National Grid reference
- SP0655 6940
- Latitude
- 52.32282
- Longitude
- -1.90551
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1781); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005309
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR22 (second identifier WSM00045)
- National record
- record SP 06 NE 9; monument 328657
- Wikidata
- Q31120142
Sources
References
- Hancox, E. and Russell, O. 2009: Recent changes to Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Worcestershire, Worcester: Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service.
- Nash, T. 1781. History of Worcestershire, Volume I, 68.
- Page, W. and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds) 1924. Victoria History of the Counties of England: a history of the County of Worcestershire, Vol IV, 452, London: St Catherine Press.