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Peckforton Mere
Cheshire West and Chester, England · Atlas EN3193
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3193 (3193)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peckforton
- National Grid reference
- SJ54305767
- Latitude
- 53.11423
- Longitude
- -2.68423
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1013481
- HER
- Cheshire MCH5784
- National record
- record SJ 55 NW 7; monument 71085
- Wikidata
- Q31053242
Sources
References
- Garner, D. 2012. Hillforts of the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge, Monograph, Habitats and Hillforts Landscape Partnership Scheme, Chester: Cheshire West and Chester Council.
- 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, 155.