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Yarborough Camp
Lincolnshire, England ยท Atlas EN2858
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2858 (2858)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lincolnshire
- Historic county
- Lincolnshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Croxton
- National Grid reference
- TA 08107 12021
- Latitude
- 53.59362
- Longitude
- -0.36805
- Altitude
- 59 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.53 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1086); Other (1789); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1819); Other (1962); Other (1963); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1986); Excavation (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016427
- HER
- North Lincolnshire 743
- National record
- record TA 01 SE 4; monument 78829
- Wikidata
- Q17664230
Sources
References
- Hambly, J. 2000. Archaeological evaluation, land at Melton Ross Quarries. Archaeological Project Services.
- Leahy, K. 1986, Yarborough Camp earthwork survey. Unpublished
- Phillips, C.W. 1934. The present state of archaeology in Lincolnshire: Part II. Archaeological Journal, 91, 97-187