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Castercliff
Lancashire, England · Atlas EN2929
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2929 (2929)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lancashire
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Nelson
- National Grid reference
- SD 88486 38386
- Latitude
- 53.84159
- Longitude
- -2.17647
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1515); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1848); Other (1925); Earthwork Survey (1962); Excavation (1971); Earthwork Survey (1971); Excavation (1958-1960)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007404
- HER
- Lancashire MLA224
- National record
- record SD 83 NE 7; monument 45247
- Wikidata
- Q31110678
Sources
References
- Coombs, D. G. 1982. Excavations at the hillfort of Castercliff, Nelson, Lancashire, 1970-71. Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc 81, 1982 111-30
- Ekwall, E. 1922. The Placenames of Lancashire. Manchester University Press.
- Forde-Johnson, J. 1962. The Hillforts of Lancashire and Cheshire. Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc
- Forde-Johnson, J. 1976. Hillforts of the Iron Age in England & Wales, 106, 122.
- Whittaker, T.D. 1801. History of Whalley, 26-7