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Kempsey Promontory Fort
Worcestershire, England · Atlas EN0369
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0369 (369)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kempsey
- National Grid reference
- SO848491
- Latitude
- 52.14010
- Longitude
- -2.22311
- Altitude
- 18 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.45 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, valley bottom, and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1954); Excavation (1956)
Identifiers
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR661 (second identifier WSM02113)
- National record
- record SO 84 NW 3; monument 115937
- Wikidata
- Q31120210
Sources
References
- O' Neil, H.E. 1956. Court house excavations: Kempsey, January 1956, Trans Worcs Arch Soc, 33, 33-44.
- 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, 421, London: St Catherine Press.
- Webster, G. 1955. A trial excavation at Kempsey, Trans Worcs Arch Soc, 32, 13-14.