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Kinver Edge
Staffordshire, England ยท Atlas EN3255
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3255 (3255)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Staffordshire
- Historic county
- Staffordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kinver
- National Grid reference
- SO 83594 83307
- Latitude
- 52.44745
- Longitude
- -2.24283
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast and south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883); 1st Identified Written Reference (1909); Other (1970); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1988); Geophysical Survey (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015432
- HER
- Staffordshire 00195-MST195
- National record
- record SO 88 SW 1; monument 116717
- Wikidata
- Q31113534
Sources
References
- Cocroft, W., Jecock, M. and Johnston, D. 1988. Staffordshire Hillforts Project. RCHME
- ECUS Ltd. 2012. Kinver Edge, Staffordshire: Historic Landscape Survey Report. Unpublished
- Evans, M. 2010. Kinver Edge, Staffs: A Geophysical Survey of the interior of the Promontory Fort. University of Worcester. Unpublished.
- Page, W. 1908. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Stafford, Vol. I. 338-340