Location
- Atlas number
- EN0383 (383)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Worcestershire
- Historic county
- Worcestershire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wolverley and Cookley
- National Grid reference
- SO 8219 8088
- Latitude
- 52.42560
- Longitude
- -2.26324
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2000); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010721
- HER
- Worcestershire MWR2561 (second identifier WSM08203)
- National record
- record SO 88 SW 13; monument 116769
- Wikidata
- Q5305643
Sources
- Atlas of Hillforts record
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata
- Historic England list entry
- Historic England research record
References
- Miller D. and Jones L. 2001. Archaeological watching brief at Drakelow Hillfort, Wolverley and Cookley, Worcestershire/Report No 893. Worcester: Worcestershire County Council, Archaeological Service.
- Pagett, T. 1994. Review of a number of Iron Age forts in Worcestershire. Monograph.