Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716249

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT45SW 1 4065 5470.

(NT 4065 5470) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map (1970)

This oval, Early Iron Age fort is situated on the gentle W slope of Hangingshaw Hill. It has been both robbed of stone and ploughed down, but enough remains to show that it originally measured 246' by 200' within two ramparts 36' apart, with a medial ditch.

R W Feachem 1963; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1913

This fort has been virtually ploughed out. Traces of the ramparts can be seen at the N and S ends, at the base of the stone field wall which bisects the fort. W of this wall, the medial ditch is visible only as a shallow fold in the ground; E of the wall, the course of the inner rampart can be traced as a low, ploughed-down ridge merging with the natural slope.

Resurveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 December 1964

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (BS) 11 August 1975.