Location
- Atlas number
- EN0116 (116)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Urswick
- National Grid reference
- SD 27438 75172
- Latitude
- 54.16720
- Longitude
- -3.11295
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1958); Other (1964); Other (1967); Excavation (1957-1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969-1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014875
- HER
- Cumbria 2248
- National record
- record SD 27 NE 2; monument 37725
- Wikidata
- Q31110604
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.
- Powell, T.G.E.1963. Excavations at Skelmore Heads near Ulverston, 1957 & 1959. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 3 1963; 4-20. plans and illustrations