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Castle Crag, Bampton
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0107
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0107 (107)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bampton
- National Grid reference
- NY 4692 1277
- Latitude
- 54.50751
- Longitude
- -2.82121
- Altitude
- 366 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Excavation (1922); Other (1925); Other (1977); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007411
- HER
- Lake District National Park 1523
- National record
- record NY 41 SE 1; monument 11056
- Wikidata
- Q31110551
Sources
References
- Collingwood, R.G. 1923. Exploration of Castle Crag, Mardale, Westmorland (Note).Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 23, 285-6
- Perriam, D.R., Robinson J. 1998. The medieval fortified buildings of Cumbria : an illustrated gazetteer and research guide. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc extra series vol. 29, 271