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Elvine's Farm
Elvine's Farm Enclosure Grid ref SO 288 683 Possible enclosure surviving only as a 10m stretch of bank and ditch at GR SO 2882 6832. Possible agricultural or tree ring origin suggested after a CPAT site visit in 1979. Iron Age ? SMR ref 291

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Newton Farm
Newton Farm Enclosure Grid ref SO 311 673 A double-ditched circular cropmark enclosure (CPAT AP 99-CS-1863 to 1865, 995087-43 to 47). Iron Age ? SMR ref 70913

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Mere Hill
Mere Hill Promontory Fort, Aymestry SO 4065 6555 Near half circle enclosed in a bank about 150m in diameter. It is D shaped in plan with the straight side formed by the scarp edge of the hill. The bank at some points is almost 2m high and 2m wide. Elsewhere it is lower. Excavation found no sign of occupation. It is possible that this hillfort was never finished. Iron Age. EHNMR ref 1337315

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Combe
Combe Moor Deer figurine find, Byton Grid ref SO 3600 6300 A bronze figurine of deer measuring 4" long and 5" high found at Combe Moor, 1972 washed out of soil after heavy rain. No associated finds recorded, last known whereabouts in possession of a London dealer. Iron Age Figurine.

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Deerfold
Deerfold Hill Camp?, N end of Deerfold Hill, Wigmore Grid ref SO 3760 6880 The N extremity of Deerfold Hill displays vestiges of a small camp. A camp is shown by Taylor but as other detail is lacking in can only be sited from hill shading GR is approx only. Deerfold Hill with steep slope on N & NW sides. Along top of northern scarp a berm between boundary hedge & steep slope, which appears to be connected with a series of scratch workings & minor quarries, immediately below it. To the S & E the surrounding land is virtually as high as the summit of the hill, but on these sides there are no trace of any defence. An aerial photograph by C. Musson shows two largely ploughed out earthen banks crossing the hill NNE to SSW creating a D shaped enclosure. Iron Age Hillfort Undated Quarry

Deerfold Enclosure, Deerfold Forest, Wigmore Grid ref SO 3872 6636 Remains of circular camp and traces of ditch enclosing a larger area on the round top of a hill on the highest part of Deerfold Forest. Inner circle of camp planted with scotch firs c 50yrs old 2 sides of large bivalate rectangular enclosure visible on aerial photos SE of circular plantation (SO 3880 6631) Circular area now cleared of trees and any trace of camp destroyed. 'Large bivallate enclosure' barely traceable on ground. Appears as broad depression perhaps 0.1m deep running from camp in NW-SE direction and may have been old track. Iron Age Hillfort? undated Enclosure

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Lingen
Lingen Hillfort? SE of Lingen Grid ref SO 3700 6680 Local names of features suggesting a former site.Old Castle Tillage. Old Castle Rough. Top of old Castle, Old Castle coppice, Old Castle Coppice. Possibly an Iron Age Hillfort? or undated Castle ?

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Kington
Kington Iron Age spindle whorl find, Grid ref SO 2900 5600 Iron Age spindle whorl from stream bed, Kington. Hereford City Museum 7499

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Lyonshall
Lyonshall Rectangular cropmarks, Nr River Arrow Grid ref SO 3100 5700 On the south side of the River Arrow a rectangular crop mark about 50m by 30m can be seen cutting a possible ring ditch on the west side. It lies just above the alluvium of the river. Iron Age.

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Pembridge
Pembridge Greek coin find, Grid ref SO 3900 5800 Bronze, Greek coin 300-200 BC, found by local resident. Iron Age.

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Willey
Hell Peak Hillfort?, Willey Grid ref SO 3290 6670 Slight bank as cropmark - possibly a hillfort - typology right, or just natural geology? Iron Age Hillfort?

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Castle Ring
Hillfort Grid ref SO 266 636 Roughly oval hillfort, 136m north-west to south-east by 106m. Bounded by bank and ditch and counterscarp bank which is partially destroyed in north-east sector. Simple entrances on longer axes. Iron Age? Also has been suggested to be possibly post-Roman of about 6th century, built as a defence during the first incursiopns into the area by the Anglo - Saxons. SMR ref 297

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Staunton
As part of the Arrow Valley Project in 2003 a pair of ditches were excavated in the Arrow valley bottom at Upper Headlands. They appeared to overlay an earlier feature but are of great interest themselves. They are thought to be Iron Age which is unusual as nearly all other surviving Iron Age sites are hillforts of which Wapley is the nearest, overlooking this part of the Arrow valley. It is postulated that this large scale site consisting of the two concentric ditches which circle a small gravel pronomotory on or near to the riverbank is a site possibly connected with Iron Age funerary rituals. It is thought that Iron Age 'burials' were likely to be in or near rivers, burial mounds were not used during this period, in fact burials are extremely rare. Also many precious objects and hoards from this period are found near rivers which appear to have been sacred to the people. The site appears to have been in ritualistic use since the Neolithic period.
A full report has recently been published by Herefordshire Archaeology. For details see the bibliography section.

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