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Roulston Scar
North Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN1504
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1504 (1504)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilburn High and Low
- National Grid reference
- SE 5149 8152
- Latitude
- 54.22682
- Longitude
- -1.21169
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 24.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, vitrification, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); 1st Identified Written Reference (1960); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (2001); Excavation (2013); Other (2013); Excavation (2015); Excavation (1969-1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015502
- HER
- North York Moors National Park 1135
- National record
- record SE 58 SW 12; monument 57324
- Wikidata
- Q31112606
Sources
References
- Grainge, E.W. 1859 The Vale of Mowbray: a historical and topographical account of Thirsk and its neighbourhood
- Oswald, A. and Pearson, T. 2001. Report AI/11/2001 Roulston Scar Survey. Unpublished
- Powlesland, D. and Signorelli G. 2015. Excavations at Roulston Scar (in prep.). Privately circulated
- Thomas N. 1960. Gazeteer of Prehistoric England, Batsford, 252