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Carl Wark
South Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN2656
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2656 (2656)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sheffield
- National Grid reference
- SK 25941 81457
- Latitude
- 53.32939
- Longitude
- -1.61196
- Altitude
- 381 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1785); Other (1933); Excavation (1950); Other (1965); Other (1978); Other (1999); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017504
- HER
- South Yorkshire 00130/01
- National record
- record SK 28 SE 2; monument 312285
- Wikidata
- Q31112958
Sources
References
- Chalkley Gould, I.1903. Carl's Wark. Derbyshire Archaeol J, volume 25, 175-80
- Piggott, C.M. 1951. Notes and News. Antiquity 25, 210_212.
- Rooke, H. 1785. A Further Account of Some Druidical Remains in Derbyshire. Archaeologica VII: 175_177