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Castle Head
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0114
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0114 (114)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Grange-over -Sands
- National Grid reference
- SD 42120 79750
- Latitude
- 54.21021
- Longitude
- -2.88898
- Altitude
- 16 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
Identifiers
- HER
- Cumbria
- National record
- record SD 47 NW 1; monument 41514
- Wikidata
- Q31110430
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1979, British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.