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Berry Mound Camp
Worcestershire, England ยท Atlas EN0373
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0373 (373)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Warwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wythall
- National Grid reference
- SP095779
- Latitude
- 52.39903
- Longitude
- -1.86137
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1960-1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1005294
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR905 (second identifier WSM01874)
- National record
- record SP 07 NE 2; monument 328850
- Wikidata
- Q31120239
Sources
References
- Anon 1960. Note, West Midland Annual Archaeological Newsheet (CBA Group 8), 3/1960/2.
- Debney, J. 2001. An investigation of the detection of structure in earthen banks and ramparts by geophysical means, Unpublished monograph.
- 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, 392-97, London: St Catherine Press.