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Oldcastle Hill, Malpas
Cheshire, England ยท Atlas EN3165
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3165 (3165)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cheshire
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Malpas
- National Grid reference
- SJ468441
- Latitude
- 52.99167
- Longitude
- -2.79330
- Altitude
- 36 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Excavation (1957)
Identifiers
- HER
- Cheshire
- National record
- record SJ 44 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31110423
Sources
References
- Morgan, V. and Morgan, P. 2004, Prehistoric Cheshire, Landmark Collector's Library, Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 152.