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East Witton Camp
North Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN2680
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2680 (2680)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- East Witton
- National Grid reference
- SE 1200 8540
- Latitude
- 54.26413
- Longitude
- -1.81727
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north and east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1947); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1913)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009321
- HER
- Yorkshire Dales National Park MYD5144 (second identifier 30652*0 (NT))
- National record
- record SE 18 NW 16; monument 50913
- Wikidata
- Q31112679
Sources
References
- Bowden, M. 1996. Maiden Castle Swaledale Survey. RCHME/16-JUL-1996/
- Page, W. 1912 The Victoria History of the County of York, II .pp.7-8