Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732763

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY28NW 6 2487 8637

(NY 2487 8637) Ancient Earthwork (NAT)

OS 6" map (1957).

Not to be confused with earthwork at NY 25390 86255, for which see NY28NE 1.

Fort.

RCAHMS 1920.

On the summit of a hill is a sub-oval fort measuring internally 66.0m NNW-SSE by 51.0m transversely, between a double earth-and-stone rampart with medial ditch. There are two entrances, in the NE and SW. In the SSE corner of the fort a low earth-and-stone bank, possibly contemporary, cuts off a corner of the interior, producing a small enclosure with an entrance in its N side. Within this enclosure is a probable house platform about 7.5m in diameter.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 20 March 1972.

Listed among 'Smaller forts and defended settlements'. Although the interior would allow space for timber-built huts additional to the four or five that may now be visible from the surface, it is clear that even if all the enclosed space were so utilised the total complement could never exceed ten.

G Jobey 1971.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (TRG) 22 September 1978.

Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980. They list this monument as a settlement.

RCAHMS AP Catalogue 1980.