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Winny Hill

Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2991

Location

Atlas number
EN2991 (2991)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Nottinghamshire
Historic county
Nottinghamshire
Parish, community, or townland
Mansfield
National Grid reference
SK 5492 6372
Latitude
53.16775
Longitude
-1.17992
Altitude
90 m

Form and condition

Type
partial contour fort
Condition
Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
4
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 4
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
1.2 ha
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
built-up land

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1789); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879-1885)

Identifiers

HER
Nottinghamshire 4004
National record
record SK 56 SW 7; monument 318232
Wikidata
Q31112848

Sources

References

  1. Stevenson, W. 1906. Victoria County History, Nottinghamshire Vol. I (1906), 296-7
  2. Yonge G. and Rooke, H. 1789. Observations on the Roman Road and Camps in the neighbourhood of Mansfield Woodhouse in the county of Nottingham. Archaeologia, 9, 193-205.