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Castle Hill, Almondbury
West Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN1616
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1616 (1616)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Huddersfield
- National Grid reference
- SE 15231 14043
- Latitude
- 53.62270
- Longitude
- -1.77120
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 5
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 3.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.2 ha, 3.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, palisade, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Other (1925); Other (1964); Other (1979); Geophysical Survey (1995); Excavation (1939-1972); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005); Geophysical Survey (2012-2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009846
- HER
- West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service 2
- National record
- record SE 11 SE 1; monument 49129
- Wikidata
- Q31119939
Sources
References
- RCHME 1996. Castle Hill, Almondbury, West Yorkshire. Archaeological Survey Report (Part I)
- Jecock, M. 1995. Castle Hill (Almondbury) Survey. RCHME: 04-JUL-1995
- Varley, W. J. 1948. The hillforts of the Welsh Marches. Archaeol J . Royal Archaeological Institute, 105, 146-7
- Varley, W.J. 1973. Castle Hill, Almondbury. A brief guide to the excavations 1939-1972. Huddersfield 1973.
- Varley, W. J, 1976. A summary of the excavations at Castle Hill, Almondbury, 1939-72 in D.W. Harding (ed), Hillforts: later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland, 119-31 and 402-07.
- Webb A and Whittingham M, 1998. Castle Hill, Almondbury, West Yorkshire: Geophysical Survey Archaeological Services. WYAS 604.