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Scarborough Castle
North Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN1323
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1323 (1323)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Scarborough
- National Grid reference
- TA 0515 8918
- Latitude
- 54.28747
- Longitude
- -0.38612
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast, east, and southeast
- Land use
- built-up land and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- Excavation (1952); 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Other (1962); Other (1981); Excavation (1921-1925)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011374
- HER
- North Yorkshire MNY9318
- National record
- record TA 08 NE 5; monument 79906
- Wikidata
- Q31112601
Sources
References
- Rutter, J.G. 1959. The Iron Age Pits on Castle Hill, Scarborough. Scarborough Archaeol Hist Soc Trans 2, 32-45