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Dunmallard
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0120
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0120 (120)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dacre
- National Grid reference
- NY 46770 24638
- Latitude
- 54.61409
- Longitude
- -2.82575
- Altitude
- 240 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1307); Other (1926); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008264
- HER
- Lake District National Park 1164
- National record
- record NY 42 SE 2; monument 11131
- Wikidata
- Q31110624
Sources
References
- Challis A.J. and Harding D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne; BAR British Series 1 (1974) - 20(i)
- Wainwright, A. 1974. "Dunmallet". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal. Westmorland Gazette. pp. 214_215.
- West, T. 1778. A Guide to the Lakes. William Pennington, Kendal