<< Our Photo Pages >> Stevenshill - Hillfort in England in Shropshire
Submitted by TheWhiteRider on Sunday, 22 October 2006 Page Views: 7517
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: StevenshillCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.991 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shropshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Shrewsbury Nearest Village: Cound
Map Ref: SJ556036
Latitude: 52.628330N Longitude: 2.657396W
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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A small promontary fort situated on Stevenshill above Coundmoor Brook. The hill is extremely steep and densely wooded on these sides so despite public footpath access very close to the ramparts on the map, nothing could be discerned.
A better view of the location of the fort is afforded from the nearby road back into Cound. An open field undulates up to the rear of the wooded top of the hill. According to the map the bank of the fort crosses this field at some point, but again without much closer inspection nothing could be made out. There was however an area close to what would have been the Northern most part of the fort where what appeared to be an earthen bank was visible in the trees. This seems to fit with the description on Archsearch of a 3m-4m high scarp bank on the NE side of the field boundary.
Cound itself is a very pleasant little village and there was ample parking alongside the telephone box. We followed the road until reaching a sharp right angle where we continued along the signposted footpath. (In a nearby field there is nothing to see of the ring ditches/barrow cemetary reported on Archsearch.) This crosses Coundmoor Brook and then follows the brook along the slopes of Stevenshill until reaching the original road that can be then followed back to Cound.
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