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Grafton Hills
North Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN2675
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2675 (2675)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Marton cum Grafton
- National Grid reference
- SE 4190 6310
- Latitude
- 54.06215
- Longitude
- -1.36133
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1949)
Identifiers
- HER
- North Yorkshire MNY18436
- National record
- record SE 46 SW 5; monument 55292
- Wikidata
- Q31112557
Sources
References
- Challis A.J. and Harding, D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British series1 (1974) - ii Page(s)3.
- Clarke, A. 1993. Grafton Hills Iron Age Hillfort, Marton cum Grafton: Archaeological Watching Brief for British Telecom Cellular Radio . Alison Clarke, Archaeological Consultant. Northallerton
- Waterman, D.M., Kent, B.W.J., Stickland H.J. 1954. Two Inland sites with "Iron Age A" Pottery in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Arch J. 38, 383-394