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Grinsdale Camp
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN0361
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0361 (361)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingmoor
- National Grid reference
- NY 3756 5849
- Latitude
- 54.91721
- Longitude
- -2.97560
- Altitude
- 34 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1858); Other (1969); Other (2010); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1903)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cumbria 399
- National record
- record NY 35 NE 6; monument 10572
- Wikidata
- Q31110457
Sources
References
- Collingwood G. 1923. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Cumberland. Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc. 23, 232
- MacLauchlan, H. 1858. Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall, through the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, in the years 1852-1854. Made by direction of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 79-80