Location
- Atlas number
- EN0364 (364)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hagley
- Also recorded in
- West Midlands
- National Grid reference
- SO 9190 8170
- Latitude
- 52.43358
- Longitude
- -2.12099
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 4, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1884); Other (1923); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (1995-2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1003820
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR121 (second identifier WSM00339)
- National record
- record SO 98 SW 4; monument 118705
- Wikidata
- Q31120164
Sources
References
- Cooper, M. and Woodiwiss, S. 1993. Assessment of the effect of the proposed Kidderminster Bypass on the setting of Wychbury Camp, Unpublished report, Archaeological Service - Worcestershire County Council. Archaeological Service - Hereford and Worcester County Council, 163.
- 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, 424, 494, London: St Catherine Press.