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Cockshot Camp
County Durham, England ยท Atlas EN3800
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3800 (3800)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- County Durham
- Historic county
- County Durham
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wyclifffe with Thorpe
- National Grid reference
- NZ 1250 1460
- Latitude
- 54.52655
- Longitude
- -1.80837
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1849); 1st Identified Written Reference (1849); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1954); Other (1973); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- County Durham 2394375; 2303103
- National record
- record NZ 11 SW 3; monument 21906
- Wikidata
- Q31112533
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 142
- MacLauchlan, H. 1849. On the Roman Roads, Camps, and Other Earthworks, between the Tees and the Swale, in the North Riding of the County of York. Archaeol J. 6, 340-1