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Warton Crag
Lancashire, England ยท Atlas EN2927
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2927 (2927)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lancashire
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Warton
- National Grid reference
- SD 4923 7281
- Latitude
- 54.14860
- Longitude
- -2.77880
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Footprint
- 3.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Other (1925); Other (1967); Other (1999); LiDAR Survey (2006); Other (2009); Other (2014); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1883-1903)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007633
- HER
- Lancashire MLA513
- National record
- record SD 47 SE 4; monument 41541
- Wikidata
- Q31110676
Sources
References
- Farrer, W. & Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancashire, (1914), 509-11
- Hutchinson, W. 1788. Account of Antiquities in Lancashire (in a letter to G. Allan), (1788)