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Castlesteads, Lowther Park
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0112
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0112 (112)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yanwath and Eamont Bridge
- National Grid reference
- NY 51857 25187
- Latitude
- 54.61954
- Longitude
- -2.74708
- Altitude
- 182 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1936); Other (1938); Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860-1861)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008236
- HER
- Cumbria 2900
- National record
- record NY 52 NW 31; monument 12051
- Wikidata
- Q31110592
Sources
References
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British series1 (1974) - 20 (i), 122.
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British series1 (1974) - 20 (ii), 51.
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.
- Jobey, G. 1966. Rural Settlement in Roman Britain. CBA Res Rep 7, 11
- RCHME England 1936. An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland. 253-4