LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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HER: Herefordshire MHE2481 (6422)
NMR: None (None)
SM: None
NGR: SO 536252
X: 353626 Y: 225204 (OSGB36)
Large univallate, level terrain fort virtually destroyed through continuous ploughing for many years and bisected by the main A4137 Hereford road. Internal area c. 7.T8ha. The line of the former ramparts now visible only as a slight rise with scarp around most of the circuit. It is possible that there might be greater survival where hedge lines cross the ramparts to the E and W and to the S where a lane runs along the line of the ditch. The deep ploughing has probably truncated the archaeological deposits. Not on the OS 1:50,000 map but in the RCHME Inventory (1931-34). Undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -297866 Y: 6786282 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -2.675777434637686 Latitude: 51.92337404588994 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: Herefordshire
Historic County: Herefordshire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Hentland
Badly damaged by road and agriculture. Intensive ploughing for many years has eroded the ramparts and nearly obliterated the site. Archaeological deposits probably truncated.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
A4137 main Hereford road bisects the site.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✓ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✓ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✓ |
Unusual location on flat plateau top suggests level terrain fort. Located at the top plateau edge of a gentle rise above a stream valley which eventually meets the River Wye to the S.
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✓ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✗ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✓ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Plateau edge.
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 128.0m
N/A
None
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
The lack of investigation mitigates against detailed analysis of the site. Herefordshire Council survey 2012.
| Other (2012): | Herefordshire Council survey. |
Univallate site difficult to interpret because of lack of investigation and virtual destruction.
Possible pool on site?
| None | ✗ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✓ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Nature of any entrance cannot be determined without site investigation because of its virtual destruction.
| 0: | Cannot be determined without site investigation. |
| 2: | Cannot be determined without site investigation. |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
The line of the former ramparts now visible only as a slight rise with scarp around most of the circuit. It is possible that there might be greater survival where hedge lines cross the ramparts to the E and W and to the S where a lane runs along the line of the ditch. Ramparts quadrants estimated but likely.
| Area 1: | 7.8ha. |
| Total: | 7.8ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Difficulty of interpretation of exact area of fort. |
| ✓ | Rampart destruction restricts positive analysis without further site investigation. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 1 |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✓ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None recorded, but possibly earthen bank.
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Possibly one outer ditch surrounding the site. |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Dorling, P. and Wigley, A. 2012. Assessment of the archaeological and conservation status of major later prehistoric enclosures in Herefordshire and Shropshire, EH PNUM, Version 3.2, Hereford and Shrewsbury: Herefordshire Council/Shropshire Council. Includes photo.
RCHME 1931-34. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, 1 (SW), 90, 11, London: HMSO.
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