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Castlesteads, The Helm
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0111
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0111 (111)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Natland and Stainton
- National Grid reference
- SD 53078 88749
- Latitude
- 54.29221
- Longitude
- -2.72239
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.03 ha, 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1778); Other (1832); Other (1925); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1862-1863)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008263
- HER
- Cumbria 2641
- National record
- record SD 58 NW 3; monument 43089
- Wikidata
- Q31110590
Sources
References
- Collingwood, W. G. 1908. Three more ancient Castles of Kendal. Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 8: 108-112
- Greenlane Archaeology Ltd, unpublished client report, Site 2
- Mace, T and Elsworth, D. 2012, The Helm, Oxenholme, Kendal, Cumbria: archaeological landscape survey.
- Nicholson, C. 1832. The Annals of Kendal. Hudson and Nicholson, Kendal, Westmorland
- West, T. 1778. A Guide to the Lakes. William Pennington, Kendal