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Berrow Hill Camp, Martley
Worcestershire, England · Atlas EN0368
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0368 (368)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Martley
- National Grid reference
- SO744585
- Latitude
- 52.22479
- Longitude
- -2.37501
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); In-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Other (2000-2005); Earthwork Survey (2000-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005332
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR501 (second identifier WSM01272)
- National record
- record SO 75 NW 3; monument 113954
- Wikidata
- Q31120203
Sources
References
- Bowden, M. 2002. Berrow Hill, Martley, Worcestershire: level 2 archaeological survey, EH Archaeol Investig Rep AI/32/2002, Swindon: English Heritage.
- Bowden, M. 2005. The Malvern Hills: an ancient landscape: an archaeological landscape, London: English Heritage.
- 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, 392, 422, London: St Catherine Press.
- Windle, B.C.A. and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds) 1901. Victoria History of the Counties of England: a history of the County of Worcestershire, 1, 187, London: St Catherine Press.