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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Getting ever closer to the Wrekin. You can just make out the ramparts around the summit. |
| Posted Comments: VirtHist
(2004-10-19) | The ramparts are all the way around the top, apart from the southwest side where not much remains - that's to the far right of the picture. If you have 'Shropshire - an Archaeological Guide' by Michael Watson, there's a plan of it on page 34. If you haven't, this quote might help:
"The inner enclosure has a main rampart that follows the crest of a steep slope which is partly artificially steepened at its base and with a slight counter-scarp bank. Inturned entrances are at the NE (Heaven Gate) and SW end, each with surface evidence for twin rectangular gaurd-chambers opening off the passageways. The rampart is at its most sunstantial where it crosses the hill to form the entrance works; elsewhere it survives only as a low mound. The outer ramparts are for the most part little more than terraces and utilise whereever possible natural rocky outcrops in their circuit. There are two of these terraces around much of the NE half of the site, and they heighten considerably where they form strong inturned banks of the outer NE entrance (Hell Gate) with its guard room recesses. Only slight remains of the SW outer entrnace survive, and its origin is uncertain".
Hope that helps. | VirtHist
(2004-10-19) | Sorry, forgot to mention that the photo was taken from the northeast. Its from the last layby on the A5 before it becomes the M54 (heading southeast). | VirtHist
(2004-10-19) | Sorry Tim, me again. That was the photo I DIDN'T post. This is from the FIRST layby on the A5 after th M54 has ended - heading northwest. |
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