52.4583°N -2.6257°WNordy Bank is an Iron Age hill fort on Brown Clee Hill in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in South Shropshire, England.[1]
The nearest village is Clee St. Margaret, overlooking Ludlow, the nearest market town.[2] The fort probably dates to between the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The site is a scheduled monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
Nordy Bank is a univallate (having a single circuit of ramparts for enclosure and defence) hill fort situated on the western end of a spur running west from the main plateau of Brown Clee Hill. The maximum dimensions of the oval enclosure are 260-1NaN-1 by 200-1NaN-1, and it covers an area of . The main entrance seems to be on the northeastern portion, facing along the ridge. A broadening and lowering of the ramparts here suggest that there may have been a gatehouse structure. A secondary entrance lies halfway along the southern side; this one lies above a steep slope making it less vulnerable to attack, and there is no sign of a guard-house here. The other gaps in the rampart are thought to be modern. There are some slight indications of the remains of structures on the inner side of the rampart; this is most notable in the northwestern part where an 80NaN0 square building seems to have been located. The fort will probably have been used as a stock enclosure, a place of refuge and a permanent settlement.[3]
The defensive ditch earthworks are in good condition although past quarrying has damaged part of the ramparts on the southeastern part.[3]
The Jack Mytton Way long distance footpath passes adjacent to the site and the Shropshire Way runs 2 km to the northeast.[4]
Nordy Bank is the location setting of Sheena Porter's novel Nordy Bank (1964).[5]