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Burr Tor
Derbyshire, England ยท Atlas EN2976
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2976 (2976)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Great Hucklow
- National Grid reference
- SK 1800 7832
- Latitude
- 53.30160
- Longitude
- -1.73129
- Altitude
- 395 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 5.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007562
- HER
- Derbyshire 6303
- National record
- record SK 17 NE 5; monument 308998
- Wikidata
- Q31113041
Sources
References
- Challis, A. J. and Harding, W. 1975. Later Prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR Brit Ser 20. Part 2
- Mr. Cresswell (of Edale), 1792, A Note. Archaeologia 10
- Preston, F. L. 1954, The hill-forts of the Peak. Derbyshire Archaeol J. LXXIV