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Castle Dikes Camp
North Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN2677
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2677 (2677)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Stainley with Sleningford
- National Grid reference
- SE 2913 7558
- Latitude
- 54.17519
- Longitude
- -1.55523
- Altitude
- 53 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East); Other Forms (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1926); Other (1962); Other (1963); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017467
- HER
- North Yorkshire MNY21030
- National record
- record SE 27 NE 15; monument 52079
- Wikidata
- Q31112656
Sources
References
- Luckis, W. C. 1875. Castle-Dykes. Archaeol J. Vol 32, 134-154