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Gardom's Edge
Derbyshire, England · Atlas EN3364
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3364 (3364)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Baslow and Bubnel
- National Grid reference
- SK 2720 7290
- Latitude
- 53.25241
- Longitude
- -1.59379
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and other burning
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1951); Other (1996); Other (1999); Earthwork Survey (1940-1991); Excavation (1995-2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Derbyshire 1386
- National record
- record SK 27 SE 37; monument 1004216
- Wikidata
- Q31113001
Sources
References
- Ainsworth, S and Barnatt, J. 1998. A Scarp-Edge Enclosure at Gardom's Edge, Baslow, Derbyshire. Derbyshire Archaeol J 118, 1998, 5-23
- Barnatt, J., Bevan, B. and Edmonds, M. 2002. Gardom's Edge: a landscape through time. Antiquity, 76, 50-56
- Barnatt and Bannister 2009, The Archaeology of a Great Estate: Chatsworth and Beyond. Windgatherer Press. 33-35
- Barnatt, J., Bevan, W. and Edmonds, M. 1995. A prehistoric landscape at Gardom's Edge, Baslow, Derbyshire: Excavations 1995. 1st interim report. https://www.academia.edu/962719/Gardoms_Edge_interim_report_1995. Accessed Sept 2015
- Barnatt, J., Bevan, W. and Edmonds, M. 1996. A prehistoric landscape at Gardom's Edge, Baslow, Derbyshire: Excavations 1996. 2nd interim report. https://www.academia.edu/962725/Gardoms_Edge_interim_report_1996. Accessed Sep 2015
- Barnatt, J., Bevan, W. and Edmonds, M. 1990 and 2000. A prehistoric landscape at Gardom's Edge, Baslow, Derbyshire: Excavations 1997. 5th interim report. https://www.academia.edu/962780/Gardoms_Edge_interim_report_1999. Accessed Sep 2015
- Beswick, P and Merrills, D. 1983. LH Butcher's survey of early settlements and fields in the southern Pennines. Trans Hunter Archaeol Soc 12, 1983, 16-50
- Cocroft, W. and Jecock, M. 1987. RCHME: Peak District Bronze Age Settlements and Field Systems. Unpublished
- Hart, C. R. 1985. Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire: settlements, cairnfield and hillfort. In D. Spratt and C.Burgess (eds)
- Upland Settlement in Britain, 71-76. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, British Series 143. Oxford
- Ward, G. H. B. 1942. Ancient British defence works discovered near Baslow. Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Handbook 1941-2, 76-81
- Ward, G. H. B. 1943. Ancient British defence works discovered near Baslow. Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Handbook 1942-3, 144-45