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Bury Bank
Staffordshire, England ยท Atlas EN3259
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3259 (3259)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Staffordshire
- Historic county
- Staffordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stone Rural
- National Grid reference
- SJ 88225 35911
- Latitude
- 52.92046
- Longitude
- -2.17659
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast, southeast, and west
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Excavation (1892); Other (1925); Other (1957); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1991); 1st Identified Written Reference (1535-1543)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008548
- HER
- Staffordshire 00022-MST22
- National record
- record SJ 83 NE 1; monument 75648
- Wikidata
- Q31113557
Sources
References
- Cocroft, W. Everson. P. Jecock, M. Ainsworth, S. and Reid, M. 1991. RCHME: Staffordshire Hillforts Project. Jan-1991. Unpublished
- Toulmin-Smith, L. (ed), 1910. The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543. London: Bell and Sons,Vol. 5, 20
- Lynam, C. 1908. Ancient Earthworks. in Page, Wm. (ed), The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Staffordshire. Vol. 1. 342-4