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Castle How, Peel Wyke
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0109
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0109 (109)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wythop
- National Grid reference
- NY 20173 30827
- Latitude
- 54.66619
- Longitude
- -3.23919
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Other (1924); Other (1966); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888-1913)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013384
- HER
- Lake District National Park 886
- National record
- record NY 23 SW 2; monument 9936
- Wikidata
- Q31110578
Sources
References
- Collingwood, R.G. 1924: Castle How, Peel Wyke._Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc
- New Series, Volume:_24:_78-87 (includes plan)
- Curwen, J.F. 1911. Castle How, Peel Wyke. Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq and Archaeol Soc. 11; 118-121 (includes plan)