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Burton Point
Cheshire West and Chester, England ยท Atlas EN3190
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3190 (3190)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Neston
- National Grid reference
- SJ30337356
- Latitude
- 53.25444
- Longitude
- -3.04576
- Altitude
- 15 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 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (2005-2006); Geophysical Survey (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013298
- HER
- Cheshire MCH6214
- National record
- record SJ 37 SW 5; monument 67150
- Wikidata
- Q31053187
Sources
References
- Crawford-Coupe, G. 2014. The promontory fort at Burton Point, In ed. Saunders, T., Hillforts in the North West and Beyond, Archaeological North West: New Series, 3 (2014), Council for British Archaeology North West, 42-50.
- Morgan, V. and Morgan, P. 2004, Prehistoric Cheshire, Landmark Collector's Library, Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 152.