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Swarthy Hill
Cumbria, England · Atlas EN0117
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0117 (117)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crosscanonby
- National Grid reference
- NY 06920 40289
- Latitude
- 54.74892
- Longitude
- -3.44763
- Altitude
- 31 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1965); Other (1967); Other (1993); Other (2010); Excavation (1988-1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014914
- HER
- Cumbria 609
- National record
- record NY 04 SE 6; monument 9143
- Wikidata
- Q31110613
Sources
References
- Bewley, R. H. 1992. Excavations on two crop-mark sites in the Solway Plain, Cumbria, Ewanrigg Settlement and Swarthy Hill, 1986_1988. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 92, 23-47.