More information : SJ 38430480 Camp (NR). (1)
A small bi-vallate hill-fort with an outer bank on the edge of
the hillside. The defences have been almost destroyed on the east
side, otherwise they are fairly perfect. (Possible site of
Callow Castle; see SJ 30 SE 7). (2)
A small hill-fort enclosing approximately 1 acre. The defences
comprise two scarp slopes averaging 2.5m. high with an
indeterminate berm 3.0m wide. In the south the berm takes the
form of a counterscarp, and along the NW and S sides there is
also an outer berm. In the NE is a well-defined, inturned
entrance. Resurveyed at 1/2500. (3)
SJ 384048. Callow Hill Camp. Scheduled. (4)(6)
SJ 384 048. Callow Hill. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort covering 0.38ha. (5)
SJ 38440481. The remains of a small multivallate hillfort on Callow HIll. The hillfort is roughly triangular in plan, with the defences defining an area of about 0.3 hectares. The defensive earthworks consist of 2 principal ramparts separated by a ditch. The size of the hillfort suggests that it was the settlement of a small community, maybe several family groups or a single, extended, family group. There is no evidence to suggest that the site of the medieval Callow Castle lies within the hillfort. Scheduled. (7)
The hillfort falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project but, because the site was covered by trees, the earthworks were was not recorded by that survey. (8) |