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Castle Ditches is a prehistoric enclosed settlement located on Bedstone Hill in Shropshire. The site comprises an earthwork defence consisting of banks and ditches that enclose an area of archaeological significance, typical of Iron Age hill fort construction in the West Midlands region. The settlement dates to the Iron Age period, reflecting the defensive and communal settlement patterns of pre-Roman Britain. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of early settlement organisation in Shropshire, though the precise extent of internal occupation features and chronological detail within the Iron Age remain subjects for further investigation.
Castle Ditches: an enclosed settlement on Bedstone Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021066. View the official record →
Castle Ditches is a prehistoric enclosed settlement located on Bedstone Hill in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021066.
Castle Ditches: an enclosed settlement on Bedstone Hill 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 1021066.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman camp 1100yds (1010m) E of Brampton Bryan parish church (4.4 km), Bowl barrow 460m west of Walford Farm (4.8 km), Roman temporary camp S of Walford Bridge (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Castle Ditches: an enclosed settlement on Bedstone Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Castle Ditches: an enclosed settlement on Bedstone Hill stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.