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Ball Cross
Derbyshire, England · Atlas EN2972
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2972 (2972)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bakewell
- National Grid reference
- SK 2278 6912
- Latitude
- 53.21865
- Longitude
- -1.66020
- Altitude
- 267 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.66 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1955); Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1979); Other (1999); Excavation (1952-1955)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011430
- HER
- Derbyshire 5141; 5142
- National record
- record SK 26 NW 14; monument 311192
- Wikidata
- Q31113023
Sources
References
- Challis A.J. and Harding D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne; BAR British series 1 (1974) - 20(i)
- Stanley, J. 1954. An Iron Age Fort at Ball Cross Farm, Bakewell. Derbyshire Archaeol J. 74. 85-99