Location
- Atlas number
- EN0363 (363)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Elmley Castle
- National Grid reference
- SO978402
- Latitude
- 52.06040
- Longitude
- -2.03222
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1959); Other (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005279
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR97 (second identifier WSM00283)
- National record
- record SO 94 SE 14; monument 118105
- Wikidata
- Q31120153
Sources
References
- Aston, M. and Bond, C.J. 1970. Elmley Castle, Worcs (SO 980403). West Midlands Archaeological News Sheet. Vol 13, 25 and facing 26.
- Dyer,C. 1965, Note on the Pottery and other Objects from Elmley Castle, University of Birmingham Historical Journal. 10, 88-9.
- Napthan, M. 1995. Report M/1995/Survey at Elmley Castle, Report No 246, Hereford and Worcester County Council Archaeology Service.
- 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, 431-3, London: St Catherine Press.