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Boltby Scar
North Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN2674
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2674 (2674)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Boltby
- National Grid reference
- SE 5059 8565
- Latitude
- 54.26402
- Longitude
- -1.22480
- Altitude
- 328 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Recesses/Guard Chambers (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1938-1939)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013086
- HER
- North York Moors National Park 1320
- National record
- record SE 58 NW 20; monument 57120
- Wikidata
- Q31112646
Sources
References
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British series 1 (1974)
- Powlesland, D. 2011(a). Excavations at Boltby Scar Hillfort 2011 An Interim Report (draft). http://www.landscaperesearchcentre.org/Boltby_Scar_2011_Interim.pdf. Accessed Feb 2015
- Powlesland, D. 2011(b). Investigation of Boltby Scar Promontory Fort SM26932 North York Moors National Park. Updated Research Design 2011. http://www.landscaperesearchcentre.org/Boltby_PD_2011.pdf. Accessed Feb 2015