Scheduled MonumentsEnglandCallow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort

Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort

England
List entry 1019828
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019828
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
1.18 hectares
Grid reference
SJ 38440 04818
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Callow Hill Camp is a small multivallate hillfort located in Shropshire, England. The site is defended by multiple concentric banks and ditches, characteristic of Iron Age hill fortifications in the Welsh Marches region. Its precise dating remains subject to archaeological interpretation, though such earthwork defences are typically associated with the Iron Age period, spanning the later prehistoric era before Roman occupation. The monument survives as an important example of defensive settlement strategy during this period, though detailed excavation records for the site are limited in the published archaeological literature.

Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019828. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort?

Callow Hill Camp is a small multivallate hillfort located in Shropshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019828.

Who is responsible for protecting Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort?

Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019828.

What other scheduled monuments are near Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross-dyke on Ratlinghope Hill, 740m north of Brow Farm (7.5 km), Ratlinghope Hill camp: a slight univallate hillfort, 600m north east of Brow Farm (7.8 km), Bowl barrow 200m north-west of Wildmoor Pool. (9 km).

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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
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The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
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The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort

Callow Hill Camp: a small multivallate hillfort stands on Llanvirn Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Whiterock. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.