Location
- Atlas number
- EN2554 (2554)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingleton
- National Grid reference
- SD 7413 7459
- Latitude
- 54.16654
- Longitude
- -2.39765
- Altitude
- 720 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and berm
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1855); 1st Identified Written Reference (1855); Other (1935); Other (1965); Other (1977); Geophysical Survey (2000); Earthwork Survey (1988-1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008876
- HER
- Yorkshire Dales National Park MYD3700
- National record
- record SD 77 SW 1; monument 44959
- Wikidata
- Q31112638
Sources
References
- Batty A and Crack N. 2000. Ingleborough HiIlfort Geophysical Survey September 2000. http://www.ingleborougharchaeology.org.uk/Ingleborough%20Geophysical%20survey.pdf. Accessed Feb. 2015
- Bowden, M, Mackay, D and Blood, K RCHME: Ingleborough Survey 1988. Unpublished
- Bowden, M, Mackay, D and Blood, K 1989. A new survey of Ingleborough hillfort. Proc Prehist Soc. 55 267-71
- Luke, Y. Rethinking Ingleborough. Dept of Archaeology York. Paper given to the Hillfort Study Group. http://www.hillfortsstudygroup.org.uk/Ingleborough.pdf. Accessed Feb 2015
- Phillips, J. 1855. The Rivers, Mountains and Sea Coast of Yorkshire: With Essays On The Climate, Scenery, And Ancient Inhabitants Of The County. Nabu Press 2011