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Carrock Fell
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0106
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0106 (106)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caldbeck
- National Grid reference
- NY 34275 33641
- Latitude
- 54.69351
- Longitude
- -3.02123
- Altitude
- 640 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 1.94 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Earthwork Survey (1938); Other (1968); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011592
- HER
- Lake District National Park 2973
- National record
- record NY 33 SW 1; monument 10501
- Wikidata
- Q31110540
Sources
References
- Collingwood R.G. 1938, The Hill fort on Carock Fell. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 32-41
- Collingwood, W.G. 1923 An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Cumberland. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc New Series 23; 241
- Hutchinson, W. 1794. History of the County of Northumberland II, 381-7
- RCHME: Industry and enclosure in the Neolithic project: Carrock Fell survey, June 1996.