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Cratcliff Rocks
Derbyshire, England ยท Atlas EN3398
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3398 (3398)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derbyshire
- Historic county
- Derbyshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harthill
- National Grid reference
- SK 2277 6238
- Latitude
- 53.15805
- Longitude
- -1.66093
- Altitude
- 252 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- east and southeast
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1966); 1st Identified Written Reference (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Derbyshire 6701
- National record
- record SK 26 SW 56; monument 311532
- Wikidata
- Q31113008
Sources
References
- Makepeace, G. A. 1999. Cratcliff Rocks - a forgotten hillfort on Harthill Moor, near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Derbyshire Archaeol J. 119. 12-18