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Bishop's Wood
Staffordshire, England ยท Atlas EN3258
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3258 (3258)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Staffordshire
- Historic county
- Staffordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eccleshall
- National Grid reference
- SJ 74472 33541
- Latitude
- 52.89868
- Longitude
- -2.38095
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1958); Other (1974); 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Earthwork Survey (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965-1967)
Identifiers
- HER
- Staffordshire 00633-MST633
- National record
- record SJ 73 SW 4; monument 74391
- Wikidata
- Q31113497
Sources
References
- Challis, A. J. and Harding, D. 1975. Later Prehistory from Trent to the Tyne. BAR 20 PtII . 47.
- Cocroft, W. and Jecock, M. 1988. RCHME: Staffordshire Hillforts Project. 15-MAY-1988. Unpublished