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Fin Cop
Derbyshire, England · Atlas EN2969
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2969 (2969)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashford in the Water
- National Grid reference
- SK 17479 70950
- Latitude
- 53.23528
- Longitude
- -1.73959
- Altitude
- 322 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 3.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1796); Other (1950); Other (1965); Other (1979); Excavation (1998); Other (1999); Other (2009); Geophysical Survey (2009); Earthwork Survey (2009); Excavation (2009-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011205
- HER
- Derbyshire 419
- National record
- record SK 17 SE 15; monument 309164
- Wikidata
- Q31113017
Sources
References
- Burn, A. and Brightman, J. 2009. An Analytical Earthwork Survey of the Hillfort at Fin Cop, Derbyshire ARS Ltd Report 2009/34 May 2009. Archaeological Research Services Ltd. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/fincoppdfs/Fin%20Cop%20Earthwork%20Survey%20Report.pdf. Accessed May 2015
- Brightman, J. 2009. Fin Cop Hillfort, Derbyshire. An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment. Archaeological Research Services Ltd Report 2009/37 June 2009. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/fincoppdfs/Fin%20Cop%20Desk-Based%20Assessment.pdf. Accessed May 2015
- Harris, T.A. 1925. Tumulus on Fin Cop. The High Peak News 19.09.25, 6
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Rooke, H. 1796. Discoveries in A Barrow In Derbyshire, Archaeologia, 12, 327-31
- Smalley, R. 2009. Geophysical Survey Report Fin Cop Hill Fort for Archaeological Research Services. May 2009. Job No. J2591. Stratascan Ltd. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/fincoppdfs/Fin%20Cop%20Geophysical%20Survey%20Report.pdf. Accessed May 2015
- Waddington, C. 2010. Fin Cop Excavation Archive Report for 2009. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/projects/fincoppdfs/Fin%20Cop%20Excavation%20Archive%20Report.pdf. Accessed May 2015
- Waddington, C. 2011. Fin Cop Excavation Archive Report for 2011. ARS Ltd Report No. 2011/27. March 2011. http://www.archaeologicalresearchservices.com/images/Fin%20Cop%202010%20Excavation%20Archive%20Report.pdf. Accessed May 2015
- Waddington, C. 2011. Massacre at Fin Cop. New evidence of an Iron Age hillfort at war. Current Archaeol, 255, 20-7.
- Wilson, J. and English, E. 1998. Investigation of a ditch and bank at Fin Cop at Monsal Head, Ashford. Derbyshire. Derbyshire Archaeol J. 118: 86-93