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Portfield
Lancashire, England · Atlas EN2926
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2926 (2926)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lancashire
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whalley
- National Grid reference
- SD 74581 35499
- Latitude
- 53.81515
- Longitude
- -2.38756
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1957); Other (1961); Other (1981); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1903); Excavation (1970-1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013608
- HER
- Lancashire MLA181
- National record
- record SD 73 NW 22; monument 44511
- Wikidata
- Q31110672
Sources
References
- Beswick, P. and Coombs, D.G. 1986. Excavations at Portfield Hillfort 1960, 1970 & 1972; in TG Manby & P Turnbull (eds) Archaeology in the Pennines; British Archaeol Rep 158, 137-179 Oxford: BAR
- Dept of Environment (1973) Archaeological Excavations 1972, p34 (HMSO)
- Tyson, N. and Bu'Lock J.D. 1957. The Iron Age Fortifications at Planes Wood, Whalley. Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc 67, 115-7