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The Castle, Cattistock
Dorset, England ยท Atlas EN3586
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3586 (3586)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dorset
- Historic county
- Dorset
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cattistock
- National Grid reference
- ST594001
- Latitude
- 50.79898
- Longitude
- -2.57727
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); In-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1888)
Identifiers
- HER
- Dorset MDO666
- National record
- record ST 50 SE 17; monument 195860
- Wikidata
- Q31115834
Sources
References
- Gale, J. 2003. Prehistoric Dorset, Stroud: Tempus Publishing.
- RCHME 1952. An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset, Vol 1, West Dorset, 73, London: RCHM.
- Hutchins, Rev. J. 1868. The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4, 3rd Edn, Westminster.
- Warne, C. 1872. Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Danish Antiquities of the County, Bournemouth: For the author, 147-48.