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Knolls End Promontory Fort
North Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN1298
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1298 (1298)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whorlton
- National Grid reference
- NZ 49593 01270
- Latitude
- 54.40449
- Longitude
- -1.23751
- Altitude
- 253 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1978); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009359
- HER
- North York Moors National Park 289
- National record
- record NZ 40 SE 12; monument 26824
- Wikidata
- Q31112592
Sources
References
- Moorhouse, S. 1979. The Yorkshire Archaeological Register. Yorkshire Archaeol J. Vol 51, 3.