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Scarside Plantation
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0121
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0121 (121)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Westmorland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bampton
- National Grid reference
- NY 53006 19291
- Latitude
- 54.56666
- Longitude
- -2.72834
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1938); Other (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007408
- HER
- Lake District National Park 1537
- National record
- record NY 51 NW 8; monument 11828
- Wikidata
- Q31110625
Sources
References
- RCHME. 1936. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmoreland. London: HMSO, 34. (British History on Line. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1297. Accessed Feb. 2015)