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South Kirkby Camp
West Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN1650
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1650 (1650)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Kirkby and Moorthorpe
- National Grid reference
- SE 4351 1047
- Latitude
- 53.58902
- Longitude
- -1.34406
- Altitude
- 88 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Other (1951); Other (1960); Other (1964); Other (1987); Geophysical Survey (1997); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1949)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018818
- HER
- West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service 83
- National record
- record SE 41 SW 6; monument 54286
- Wikidata
- Q31119943
Sources
References
- Page, W. 1912 The Victoria History of the County of York, Volume Two.
- Whittingham M. 1997. South Kirkby Camp, South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, Gradiometer Survey. West Yorkshire Archaeology Service.