Caer Caradoc

Caer Caradoc Hill
Caer Caradoc
Highest point
Elevation	1,506 ft (459 m)
Prominence	889 ft (271 m)
Listing	Marilyn
Naming
Native name	Caer Caradog (Welsh)
Geography

Location	Shropshire, England
Parent range	Shropshire Hills
OS grid	SO477953
Topo map	OS Landranger 137, 138

Caer Caradoc (Welsh: Caer Caradog, the fort of Caradog) is a hill in the English county of Shropshire.^[1] It overlooks the town of Church Stretton and the village of All Stretton and offers panoramic views to the north towards the Wrekin, east to Wenlock Edge, and west over the nearby Long Mynd. It is not to be confused with another hillfort of the same name 1 km west of Chapel Lawn near Bucknell.^[2]

Caer Caradoc rises sharply out of a narrow valley known as the Stretton Gap. It is the highest point on a high, narrow, northeast–southwest "whaleback ridge", sometimes called a hogsback ridge. The Wrekin is a very similarly shaped hill and on the same alignment, some 10 miles (16 km) to the north-east. Caer Caradoc can be fairly easily climbed from Church Stretton but the ascent/descent is steep; a more gentle climb is from the village of Cardington, which lies two miles (3 km) east.

Much of the hill is composed from volcanic rocks, like the Wrekin and other hills, formed of narrow ridges of resistant Precambrian rock thrust upwards by movements deep down along the Church Stretton Fault. This fault line runs from Staffordshire in England to Pembrokeshire in Wales and can be seen on Ordnance Survey maps as a line of springs on this hill.^[3]

The summit has an Ancient British Iron Age^[1] or late Bronze Age hill fort. It is this which the hill is named after – Caer Caradog in Welsh meaning Caradog's fort. Local legend has it that this was the site of Caratacus' last battle against the Roman legions during the Roman conquest of Britain, and that after the battle he hid in the cave near its summit. However, there is no river nearby and Tacitus refers to a river in his description of the site.^[4]^[5]

52°33′11″N 2°46′22″W / 52.55302°N 2.77279°W / 52.55302; -2.77279

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References

^ ^a ^b Historic England. "Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill (1010723)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ Historic England. "Caer Caradoc: a small multivallate hillfort (1021067)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Church Stretton fault". Shropshire Geoplogy. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ "Ancient Worlds - The legend of Caractacus". Archived from the original on 22 August 2021.
^ Tacitus. Annals 12:33-38.

v t e Iron Age hillforts in England
Bedfordshire	Mowsbury Hill Maiden Bower
Berkshire	Bussock Camp Caesar's Camp Grimsbury Castle Membury Camp Perborough Castle Walbury Camp
Bristol	Clifton Camp Kings Weston Hill
Buckinghamshire	Boddington Camp Cholesbury Camp Desborough Castle
Cambridgeshire	Stonea Camp Wandlebury Ring
Cheshire	Bradley Eddisbury Helsby Hill Kelsborrow Castle Maiden Castle Oakmere Woodhouse Hill
Cornwall	Black Head Cadson Bury Caer Bran Castallack Round Castle an Dinas Castle Dore Castle Goff Chûn Castle Dodman Point Giant's Castle Kelly Rounds Kelsey Head Lescudjack Lesingey Round Maen Castle Padderbury Top Prideaux Castle Rame Head The Rumps Trencrom Hill Trereen Dinas Treryn Dinas Trevelgue Head Warbstow Bury
Cumbria	Carrock Fell Castle Crag
Derbyshire	Fin Cop Mam Tor
Dorset	Abbotsbury Castle Badbury Rings Banbury Hill Buzbury Rings Chalbury Hillfort Coney's Castle Dudsbury Camp Dungeon Hill Eggardon Hill Flower's Barrow Hambledon Hill Hod Hill Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill Maiden Castle Pilsdon Pen Poundbury Hill Woodbury Hill Woolsbarrow
East Sussex	Hollingbury Castle Mount Caburn
Essex	Ambresbury Banks Danish Camp Loughton Camp
Gloucestershire	Cleeve Hill Kimsbury Camp Uley Bury
Greater Manchester	Mellor hill fort
Hampshire	Ashleys Copse Buckland Rings Bury Hill Caesar's Camp Castle Hill Chilworth Ring Danebury Dunwood Camp Frankenbury Camp The Frith Gorley Hill Hamble Common Camp King John's Hill Knoll Camp Ladle Hill Lockerley Camp Norsebury Ring Old Winchester Hill Oram's Arbour Quarley Hill St. Catherine's Hill Tidbury Ring Toothill Fort Whitsbury Castle Woolbury
Herefordshire	Aconbury Camp Brandon Camp British Camp Capler Camp Croft Ambrey Dinedor Camp Garmsley Camp Ivington Camp Poston Camp Sutton Walls Wapley Hill
Hertfordshire	Arbury Banks Wilbury Hill Camp
Kent	Bigbury Camp Oldbury Camp
Lancashire	Castercliff Portfield Warton Crag
Leicestershire	Burrough Hill
Norfolk	Bloodgate Hill Holkham Camp Warham Camp
North Yorkshire	Eston Nab Maiden Castle Stanwick Camp
Northamptonshire	Borough Hill Hunsbury Hill Rainsborough Camp
Northumberland	Castle Knowe Humbleton Hill Yeavering Bell
Oxfordshire	Blewburton Hill Cherbury Camp Hardwell Castle Uffington Castle
Shropshire	Bayston Hill Bury Ditches Bury Walls Caer Caradoc, Church Stretton Caer Caradog, Chapel Lawn Caus Castle Coxall Knoll Nordy Bank Old Oswestry The Wrekin
Somerset	Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury King's Castle, Wiveliscombe
South Yorkshire	Carl Wark Wincobank
Staffordshire	Berry Ring Berth Hill Bury Bank Castle Ring Kinver Edge Hillfort
Surrey	Caesar's Camp Hascombe Hill Holmbury Hill
West Sussex	Chanctonbury Ring Cissbury Ring Goosehill Camp Harting Beacon Highdown Hill Thundersbarrow Hill The Trundle Torberry Hill
West Yorkshire	Castle Hill
Wiltshire	Ashleys Copse Barbury Castle Battlesbury Camp Bratton Castle Bury Camp Castle Ditches Casterley Camp Castle Rings Chisbury Chiselbury Chisenbury Camp Clearbury Ring Cley Hill Fosbury Camp Grovely Castle Knook Castle Liddington Castle Membury Camp Old Sarum Ringsbury Camp Roundway Down Scratchbury Camp Sidbury Hill Vespasian's Camp Winkelbury Camp Yarnbury Castle
Worcestershire	Berrow Hill Camp Berry Mound Bredon Hill British Camp Conderton Camp Drakelow Gadbury Bank Hanbury Hill Headless Cross Midsummer Hill Woodbury Hill Wychbury Ring

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