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Castle Naze
Derbyshire, England ยท Atlas EN2979
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2979 (2979)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chapel-en-le-Frith
- National Grid reference
- SK 05364 78439
- Latitude
- 53.30286
- Longitude
- -1.92098
- Altitude
- 443 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.28 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1788); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Other (1936); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009294
- HER
- Derbyshire 3510
- National record
- record SK 07 NE 1; monument 305994
- Wikidata
- Q31113050
Sources
References
- Preston, F. L. 1954. The Hill-Forts of the Peak. Derbyshire Archaeol J. 74, 9
- Ramm, H.G. 1957. A Survey of the Combs Moss Hillfort. Derbyshire Archaeol J. 77, 49-53
- Rooke, H. 1789. Account of a Roman Building and Camp lately discovered in Buxton in the County of Derbyshire. Archaeologia