Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729464

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX74NW 3 7236 4925.

(NX 7237 4925) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Fort

F R Coles 1891; RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911

On an elongated natural hillock which falls away gradually to the SW are the remains of a settlement. Oval on plan it measures 66.0m NW-SE x 36.0m transversely and consists of an earth and stone rampart now reduced to a scarp except on the NE and SW. Below this a terrace 3.0 to 4.0m wide extends around the hillock except on the SW. Although this may be contemporary with the settlement it has clearly been used for later cultivation. The interior is featureless.

The absence of multiple ramparts across the naturally weak SW side argues for this being a settlement rather than a fort.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 3 February 1971.