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Maiden Castle, Swaledale
North Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN4049
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4049 (4049)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Grinton
- National Grid reference
- SE 0222 9809
- Latitude
- 54.37837
- Longitude
- -1.96727
- Altitude
- 309 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1826); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1924); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1012609
- HER
- North Yorkshire
- National record
- record SE 09 NW 4
- Wikidata
- Q31112704
Sources
References
- Bowden, M. 1996. Maiden Castle Swaledale Survey. RCHME. Unpublished, ref. no. 1066873.
- Bowden, M. & Blood, K. 2004. Reassessment of two late prehistoric sites: Maiden Castle and Greenber Edge in White, R.F. & Wilson, P.R. (eds) (2004) Archaeology and Historic Landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Occasional Paper No 2 89-97
- Whitaker, T 1823 An History of Richmondshire, London