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Dorket Head
Nottinghamshire, England ยท Atlas EN2999
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2999 (2999)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Nottinghamshire
- Historic county
- Nottinghamshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arnold
- National Grid reference
- SK 59692 48572
- Latitude
- 53.03109
- Longitude
- -1.11136
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 8.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and parkland
- Water source
- spring and well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); Excavation (1974-1991); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006397
- HER
- Nottinghamshire 2051
- National record
- record SK 54 NE 4; monument 317855
- Wikidata
- Q31112891
Sources
References
- Rooke, H. 1792. Letter. Archaeologia 10 1792 378-80 plan
- Turner, J. and Turner, C. 1997. Dorket Head Nottinghamshire. Sherwood Archaeological Society. Unpublished