Bury Walls

Bury Walls is an Iron Age hillfort about 1 mile south-east of Weston-under-Redcastle, in Shropshire [1]. The fort is on a promontory facing south-west, part of the southern escarpment of a sandstone ridge [1]. The enclosure is about 520 metres north to south and 380 metres east to west; the area within is about 8 hectares [1]. There are steep slopes on all sides except the north, where there are two massive ramparts and ditches, the inner rampart being about 7.8 metres above the interior [1]. Elsewhere there is a single rampart around the edge of the promontory, about 3.0 metres along the east side and up to 1.8 metres along the west side [1]. In 1930 there was some excavation of the site by E. W. Bowcock [1]. Near the centre of the interior, foundations of a building were discovered, thought at the time to be medieval, but more recently thought to be the remains of a Romano-Celtic temple [1].