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Markland Grips
Derbyshire, England · Atlas EN2970
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2970 (2970)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Elmton
- National Grid reference
- SK 51122 75178
- Latitude
- 53.27112
- Longitude
- -1.23490
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 4.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1883); Other (1935); Other (1965); Excavation (1969); Other (1979); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875-1877)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011428
- HER
- Derbyshire 5215
- National record
- record SK 57 NW 8; monument 318373
- Wikidata
- Q31113021
Sources
References
- Cox, J.C. 1905, Ancient Earthworks. The Victoria County History of Derbyshire. Vol 1
- Gray, Reverend J. H. 1883. Bolsover Castle
- Lane, H.C. 1969. Markland Grips Iron Age Promontory Fort. An interim report. Derbyshire Archaeol J. Vol. 89
- Preston, F. 1954. The hill-forts of the Peak. Derbyshire Archaeol J. Vol. 74, 4-5.