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Mellor
Stockport, England · Atlas EN3199
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3199 (3199)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Stockport
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mellor
- National Grid reference
- SJ98208 88929
- Latitude
- 53.39718
- Longitude
- -2.02842
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1810); Other (1995); Geophysical Survey (1998); Excavation (1998-2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Greater Manchester 11249
- National record
- record SJ 98 NE
- Wikidata
- Q31119752
Sources
References
- Forde-Johnston, James (1962), The Iron Age Hillforts of Lancashire and Cheshire, Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiq Soc, 72, 9_46.
- Hearle, J., Nevell, M. and Thompson, A. 2014. Mellor: Late Bronze Age to late Roman settlement activity in an upland context, In ed. Saunders, T., Hillforts in the North West and Beyond, Archaeological North West: New Series, 3 (2014), Council for British Archaeology North West, 65-72.
- Hodgson, J. and Brennand, M. 2006. The Prehistoric Period Resource Assessment, Archaeol North West, 8, 23_58.
- Marriott, Rev W. 1810. Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity, Stockport: J. Dawson.
- Morgan, V. and Morgan, P. 2004, Prehistoric Cheshire, Landmark Collector's Library, Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 153-54.
- Nevell, M. and Redhead, N. (eds) 2005. Mellor: Living on the Edge. A Regional Study of an Iron Age and Romano-British Upland Settlement, Manchester: University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit, and the Mellor Archaeological Trust.
- Philpott, R. 2006. The Romano-British Period Resource Assessment, Archaeol North West, 8, 59_90.
- University of Manchester Archaeological Unit 2000. Excavations at Mellor, Stockport. Second Season. UMAU Monograph, Manchester.
- University of Manchester Archaeological Unit 2005. Mellor: Living on the Edge, UMAU Monograph, Manchester.