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Bunbury
Staffordshire, England ยท Atlas EN3260
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3260 (3260)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Staffordshire
- Historic county
- Staffordshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Farley
- National Grid reference
- SK 07168 43072
- Latitude
- 52.98492
- Longitude
- -1.89469
- Altitude
- 193 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 5.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1686); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1881); Other (1956); Excavation (1963); Earthwork Survey (1997); Other (1999); Excavation (1999); LiDAR Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014686
- HER
- Staffordshire 00064-MST64
- National record
- record SK 04 SE 11; monument 305379
- Wikidata
- Q31113566
Sources
References
- Anon. 1961. Keele Archaeological Group Newsletter, 1, November, Addendum.
- Bell, C. 1999. Proposed New Ride at Alton Towers, Farley, Staffordshire: Desk Based Assessment. Oxford Archaeological Unit. Unpublished
- Dark J. 1999. The Dark Ride, Alton Towers, Farley, Staffordshire: Archaeological Watching Brief Report. Oxford Archaeological Unit. Unpublished
- Dark J. 1999. The Dark Ride, Alton Towers, Farley, Staffordshire: Archaeological Evaluation Report. Oxford Archaeological Unit. Unpublished
- Cocroft, W., Jecock M. and Johnston, D. 1988. RCHME: Staffordshire Hillforts Project. Unpublished
- Plot R. 1686. The Natural History of Staffordshire. 140
- Thomas, N., Gunstone, J., Forde-Johnston, A.J.H., Weaver, O.J. and Sherlock, R. 1963. Report of the Summer Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Keele in 1963. Archaeol J, 120, 261-2