<< Our Photo Pages >> Bury Bank (Staffordshire) - Hillfort in England in Staffordshire
Submitted by TimPrevett on Monday, 14 October 2002 Page Views: 21324
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bury Bank (Staffordshire)Country: England County: Staffordshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Stone Nearest Village: Meafod
Map Ref: SJ883359 Landranger Map Number: 127
Latitude: 52.920387N Longitude: 2.17546W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Marko visited on 22nd Mar 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Parked in the car park at nearby pub.(Darlaston Inn),at junction of the A34/A51.Walked up the A51 to footpath on the right,(just after passing Bury Bank farm),this led to the quarry area as described by Tim Prevett.A short walk then to the outer rampart.....protected by a low barbed wire fence.Spent an hour there with the place all to myself.
Best remains are on the West side.
Suggest you vist in Winter or Spring.........lower undergrowth!!
TimPrevett have visited here
This hillfort is squeezed between the A34 and A51 just north of the town of Stone (town name coming from events in the Anglo-Saxon period).
Two embankments sit within a wooded hilltop, heavily overgrown in the summer. The ramparts do not really have a ditch, so one wonders if it was constructed that way, or the ditches have filled in. Suspect the former, as could find no evidence of ditches.
Appears to be no access, but having called on the neighbouring farm, two farmers informed me that it is forestry commission run, and that lots of folk visit and walk their dogs up there anyhow. They recommended I enter the site on the SW side through a disused quarry recessed in the woods, and following the track from there.
A beautiful, remote feeling spot (even with the A34 beneath!), buzzing with life in spring and summer.
A denuded round barrow sits at the highest part of the fort.
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