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Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm

England
List entry 1008385
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1008385
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.4 hectares
Grid reference
SO 45420 95058
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm is a prehistoric or Romano-British earthwork monument located in Shropshire. The site comprises an enclosure with an associated building platform, surviving as an archaeological feature within the landscape. The monument represents settlement activity from the Iron Age or Roman period, though its precise dating remains subject to archaeological interpretation. Such enclosures with internal building platforms are characteristic of domestic settlement organisation during these periods, providing evidence of land use and habitation patterns in the Welsh Marches region.

Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008385. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm?

Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm is a prehistoric or Romano-British earthwork monument located in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008385.

Who is responsible for protecting Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm?

Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm 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 1008385.

What other scheduled monuments are near Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman villa 200yds (180m) N of Acton Scott Hall (5.3 km), Roman road at Marshbrook (5.7 km), Bowl barrow on Prior's Holt Hill. (6.3 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
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.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
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LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Roman villa 200yds (180m) N of Acton Scott Hall
5.3 km
Roman road at Marshbrook
5.7 km
Bowl barrow on Prior's Holt Hill.
6.3 km
Bowl barrow on Synald's Knoll, 1000m south of the Midland Gliding clubhouse.
6.8 km
Two conjoined ring cairns on Synald's Knoll, 140m north-west of OS trig pillar.
7 km
Bowl barrow 80m north-west of OS trig pillar on Synald's Knoll.
7 km
Botley Stone, a ring cairn on Churchmoor Hill, 600m north-west of Churchmoor Farm.
7.2 km
Bowl barrow on the southern end of The Long Mynd, 630m east of Myndtown.
8 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm

Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm stands on Unnamed Metasedimentary Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate.

The wider landscape

Around Enclosure and building platform on Nover's Hill, 250m east of Cwmdale Farm

Offa's DykeArchaeological site · ~10.8 milesWroxeterRoman town · ~11 milesBattle of Shrewsbury 1403Battle (1403) · ~14.1 miles
Domesday entry for Stretton, Shropshire →
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