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Beeston Castle
Cheshire West and Chester, England · Atlas EN3185
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3185 (3185)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Beeston
- National Grid reference
- SJ53795919
- Latitude
- 53.12788
- Longitude
- -2.69203
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, timber-laced wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (1981); Other (2008); LiDAR Survey (2009); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1874-1875); Excavation (1968-1973); Excavation (1975-1985); Other (2007-2011); Geophysical Survey (2009-2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007900
- HER
- Cheshire MCH1415 (second identifier 1732/1/1-3)
- National record
- record SJ 55 NW 3; monument 1913
- Wikidata
- Q31053127
Sources
References
- Brooks, I.P. and Laws, K. 2009. Beeston Castle geophysical survey, November 2009, EAS Client Report 2009/12, Blaenau Ffestiniog: Engineering Archaeological Services.
- Brooks, I.P. and Price, J. 2010. Beeston Castle geophysical survey, June 2010, EAS Client Report 2010/11, Blaenau Ffestiniog: Engineering Archaeological Services.
- Brooks, I.P. and Price, J. 2010. Beeston Castle geophysical survey, August 2010, EAS Client Report 2010/15, Blaenau Ffestiniog: Engineering Archaeological Services.
- Ellis, P. (ed) 1993. Beeston Castle, Cheshire. Excavations by Laurence Keen and Peter Hough, 1968-85, English Heritage Archaeological Report, 23, London: English Heritage.
- Forde-Johnston, J. 1962. The Iron Age hill-forts of Lancashire and Cheshire, Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc, 72, 9-46.
- 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.
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Leah, M.D., Wells, C.E., Appleby, C. and Huckerby, E. 1997. The wetlands of Cheshire, North West Wetlands Survey, 4, Lancaster: Lancaster Imprints.
- Longley, D.M.T. 1987. Prehistory, in eds B.E. Harris and Thacker, A.T. The Victoria County History of the County of Chester, I, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Morgan, V. and Morgan, P. 2004, Prehistoric Cheshire, Landmark Collector's Library, Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 148-150.