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Castle Steads, Bury
Bury, England · Atlas EN3201
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3201 (3201)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Bury
- Historic county
- Lancashire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walmsley-with Shuttleworth
- National Grid reference
- SD7970 1298
- Latitude
- 53.61297
- Longitude
- -2.30833
- Altitude
- 111.8 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1751); Other (1795); Geophysical Survey (1991); Excavation (1960-1986); Geophysical Survey (1984-1986); Earthwork Survey (1984-1986); Other (1991-1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014720
- HER
- Greater Manchester 78.1.0
- National record
- record SD 71 SE
- Wikidata
- Q31113083
Sources
References
- Bury Archaeological Group 1960's. 1960's excavations at Castle Steads, Unpublished document.
- Farrer, W. and Brownbill, J. (eds) 1908. Victoria County History of the County of Lancashire, Vol II, 553-54.
- Fletcher, M. 1992. Castle Steads, Bury: Evaluation Report, Unpublished document.