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Great Woolden Hall, Glazebrook
Salford, England · Atlas EN3200
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3200 (3200)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Salford
- Historic county
- Cheshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Barton-upon-Irwell
- National Grid reference
- SJ6910 9356
- Latitude
- 53.43789
- Longitude
- -2.46663
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Other (1986); Excavation (1986-1988); Geophysical Survey (1986-1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015127
- HER
- Greater Manchester 1907
- National record
- record SJ 69 SE 16; monument 27594; 73547
- Wikidata
- Q31056151
Sources
References
- Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit 1987-88. Archaeol of Greater Manchester J, 3, 1987-8, 35-44.
- Hartwell, C. and Neil ,N. 1986. Report on trial excavation and survey of a possible prehistoric enclosure at Great Woolden Hall Farm, Glaze Brook, Irlam, Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit [Assessment and Evaluation Reports], Report No 1986/1.
- McNeil, R. and Nevell, M. Undated. Great Woolden Hall. A settlement on the Fringes of the Wetlands, Manchester: Manchester Archaeological Unit.