Roveries
Iron Age Hillfort
The Roveries, hill-fort (SO/325925) 19 miles SW of Shrewsbury, (A5, A49), 2¼ miles N of Bishop’s Castle (a488, B4385). Finds in Shrewsbury Museum. – This oval hill-fort with outlier across he valley to the N, encloses 6 acres. It is defended by a drystone-faced rampart and no ditch. A deep in-turned entrance, with rock-cut post holes for gate with bridge and rectangular guard-chambers, is near the centre of the N side and is open for inspection, as the pre-1939 excavators left it. A well-marked ancient track approaches it up the hillside. A second entrance, in addition to the original plan, is opposite on the SE side. Here an out-turned arm, drystone-faced, was added running down the hill to the E and a gap was cut through the original line of rampart. The length of unfilled causewayed ditch within the camp near the W end may represent the original W side, abandoned in favour of the present plan.
GtPE, p.185
Map References for The Roveries – Shropshire
NGRef: SO324926 OSMap: LR137
Sites near Roveries
- Norbury / Linley Hall (4 km)
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Marching or Temporary Camp - Brompton 1 Temporary Camp (7 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Pentreheyling or Brompton Roman Fort (8 km)
Claudian Auxiliary Fort (AD 43–54) - Bury Ditches (9 km)
Iron Age Hillfort - Burrow Camp Shropshire (11 km)
Iron Age Hillfort - Ffridd Faldwyn (12 km)
Iron Age Hillfort - Stretford Bridge Roman Fort (13 km)
Claudian Auxiliary Fort (AD 43–54) - Upper Affcot Camp (13 km)
Marching or Temporary Camp - Stretford Bridge Temporary Camp (13 km)