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Castle Crag, Borrowdale
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0108
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0108 (108)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borrowdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 2493 1598
- Latitude
- 54.53352
- Longitude
- -3.16165
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1800); Other (1963); Other (1973); Other (2007); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1913); Excavation (1714-1837)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012940
- HER
- Lake District National Park 1232
- National record
- record NY 21 NW 2; monument 9802
- Wikidata
- Q31110562
Sources
References
- Housman, J. 1800. Topographical Description of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Carlisle.
- Oxford Archaeology North (2007) Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria. Vol. 1: Archaeological Report and Figures.
- Whitfield, C. Castle Crag, Borrowdale. Unpublished survey report.