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Helsby Hill Camp
Cheshire West and Chester, England · Atlas EN3184
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3184 (3184)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Helsby
- National Grid reference
- SJ49277539
- Latitude
- 53.27304
- Longitude
- -2.76219
- Altitude
- 141 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and timber-laced wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- parkland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- before 1200 BC, 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14 and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- lithics and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1955); Excavation (1964); Geophysical Survey (2009); Earthwork Survey (2010); LiDAR Survey (2010); Excavation (2010); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873-1874)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013292
- HER
- Cheshire MCH8237 (second identifier 1007/2)
- National record
- record SJ 47 NE 4; monument 69518
- Wikidata
- Q31053107
Sources
References
- Brown, I. 2009. Beacons in the landscape. The hillforts of England and Wales, Oxford: Windgather Press/Oxbow Books.
- Bu'Lock, J.D. 1956. The hill-fort at Helsby, Cheshire, Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc, 66, 107-10.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1962. The Iron Age hill-forts of Lancashire and Cheshire, Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc, 72, 21-2.
- Garner, D. 2012. Hillforts of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge, Monograph, Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Scheme, Chester: Cheshire West and Chester Council.
- Garner, D. 2014. Helsby Hill to Maiden Castle: Prehistoric forts of the Cheshire Ridge, In ed. Saunders, T., Hillforts in the North West and Beyond, Archaeological North West: New Series, 3 (2014), Council for British Archaeology North West, 28-41.
- Garner, D. 2016. Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge. Investigations undertaken by the Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Scheme 2009-2012. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- Morgan, V. and Morgan, P. 2004, Prehistoric Cheshire, Landmark Collector's Library, Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 145.