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Barrock Fell
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0104
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0104 (104)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hesket
- National Grid reference
- NY 4645 4756
- Latitude
- 54.82003
- Longitude
- -2.83493
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1949); Other (1974); 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); LiDAR Survey (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007874
- HER
- Cumbria 707
- National record
- record NY 44 NE 8; monument 11330
- Wikidata
- Q31110529
Sources
References
- Challis A.J. and Harding, D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR (British series 1) (1974) - 20 (i) Page(s)122
- Challis A.J. and Harding, D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR (British series 1) (1974) - 20 (ii) Page(s)46
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.
- Richardson, C. 1990. A catalogue of recent acquisitions to Carlisle Museum and reported finds from the Cumbrian area, Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 66, 36