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Castle Hill
Lancashire, England ยท Atlas EN2930
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2930 (2930)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Lancashire
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leck
- National Grid reference
- SD 65039 77928
- Latitude
- 54.19592
- Longitude
- -2.53737
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 10
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Oblique (North west); Hornwork (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1925); Other (1964); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Other (1979); LiDAR Survey (2012); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012822
- HER
- Lancashire MLA672
- National record
- record SD 67 NE 1; monument 43942
- Wikidata
- Q31110683
Sources
References
- Collingwood, W.G. 1925. Trans Cumb and Westm Anq and Archaeol Soc. 25 NS, 367.
- Jecock, M. and Pullen, R. 2013. NAIS Upland Pilot Project 03-OCT-2013. Unpublished