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Small enclosed settlement on Fron is an Iron Age or Romano-British settlement located near the village of Fron in Shropshire, west of St John's Church. The site comprises an enclosure visible as earthworks, characteristic of small agricultural settlements that were common in the West Midlands during the later prehistoric and Roman periods. The monument represents the everyday settlement pattern of a rural community, providing evidence of domestic occupation and land use in this region during antiquity. Such enclosed settlements typically housed a single farmstead or small family group and their livestock, forming part of the dispersed settlement hierarchy that developed across the Shropshire landscape.
Small enclosed settlement on Fron, 340m west of St John's Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021069. View the official record →
Small enclosed settlement on Fron is an Iron Age or Romano-British settlement located near the village of Fron in Shropshire, west of St John's Church. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021069.
Small enclosed settlement on Fron, 340m west of St John's Church 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 1021069.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camp on Llanfair Hill (4.8 km), Offa's Dyke: section 890m north west and 320m west of Little Selley (5.6 km), Bowl barrow 160m north of Mellin-y-Grogue (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Small enclosed settlement on Fron, 340m west of St John's Church'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.
Small enclosed settlement on Fron, 340m west of St John's Church stands on Ludlow Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ludlow. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.