Coxall Knoll

Also known as:
Frog Stone
Nearest town:
Knighton (8km WSW)
OS reference:
SO366734
OS sheets:
137, 148
Latitude:
52° 21' 16.35 N
Longitude:
2° 55' 51.56 W
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Image of Coxall Knoll (Hillfort) by juamei

Image Credit: Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.

Image credit: Open Source Environment Agency LIDAR
juamei
juamei Mar 25, 2018
Image of Coxall Knoll (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

To be honest, I know not where on Coxall Knoll this is...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 7, 2012
Image of Coxall Knoll (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

The northern flank of the eastern enclosure joining the overwhelming defences of the main enclosure... or something like that.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 7, 2012
Image of Coxall Knoll (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Powerful multivallate defences at the western end....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 7, 2012
Image of Coxall Knoll (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

This hill fort is massive, heavilly overgrown and therefore confusing.... at least in late September. This is upon the southern bank of the eastern ‘annexe’. I think.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 7, 2012

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Coxall Knoll
Hillfort
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jul 17, 2006

This hillfort perches on the convenient natural hill of Coxall Knoll, which lies on the county boundary and between the River Teme and the River Redlake. The hillsides are naturally steep, but were artificially steepened: there’s an 8-12m drop from the top of some of the banks to the bottom of the ditches. There’s a complex of enclosures within enclosures – perhaps some of the banks were left unfinished.

In the northerly section there is a recumbent stone, 1.5m x 1.5m x 0.5m. It’s known as the Frog Stone because of its alleged resemblance to a crouching frog. The Herefordshire SMR suggests the stone was once upright, and points to the uneven wear on its surfaces as evidence (the record at Magic says this is glacial erosion on its upper surface). They add that the stone faces north east over the Clun valley, and so may have been deliberately positioned by the hillfort builders, or perhaps by earlier inhabitants of the area.

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