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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Wart Hill Camp Alternative Name: Wart Hill HillfortCountry: England County: Shropshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Craven Arms Nearest Village: Hopesay
Map Ref: SO400847
Latitude: 52.456939N Longitude: 2.884421W
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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A small hiilfort or settlement on Wart Hill, now largely destroyed by forestry activity in the C20th.
The summit of Wart Hill, reached by a short, but sharp climb, offers rewarding views of the Shropshire Hills. However the location of the Iron Age remains is quite difficult to ascertain as what is left of the site, after heavy duty landscaping for a larch plantation in the 1930s, is reduced to scarp banks at the southern end of the feature.
The summit is a really nice spot, the footpath running through a small grassy area with the trig point and a few larch trees. To the edge of the grassy area are the scarp banks. The climb to the summit is signposted just off the Shropshire Way as part of a collection of walks established by The Secret Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms.
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