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Sutton Common
South Yorkshire, England · Atlas EN4161
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4161 (4161)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Norton
- National Grid reference
- SE 5639 1208
- Latitude
- 53.60227
- Longitude
- -1.14918
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- guard chambers, annex, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West); Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, rectangular structures, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, human bones, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1868); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906); Other (1964); Other (1980); Geophysical Survey (1993); Geophysical Survey (2003); Excavation (1933-1935); Excavation (1987-1993); Excavation (1998-2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1004816
- HER
- South Yorkshire 00133/01
- National record
- record SE 51 SE 2; monument 56097
- Wikidata
- Q31112980
Sources
References
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- Parker Pearson, M. and Sydes, R., 1997. The Iron Age enclosures and prehistoric landscape at Sutton Common, South Yorkshire PPS 63, 221_59
- Parker Pearson, M. and Merrony, C. 1993. Sutton Common, Dessication Assessment 1993 - Interim Report. Sheffield Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire Archaeological Services and Doncaster Museum.
- Payne, 2003. Iron Age Enclosures on Sutton Common, Near Askern, South Yorkshire. Report on Geophysical Survey, June 2003. Centre for Archaeology Report 106/2003. English Heritage. http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/106-2003WEB.pdf. Accessed February 2016
- Surtees, S. F. 1868. Footprints of Roman Occupation in the Southern Parts of North Humber Land. Leeds: Baines.
- Van de Noort, R. 2004. Sutton Common Updated project design (including assessment report and statement of potential). v 1.2, 21 April 2004. www.projects.ex.ac.uk/suttoncommon/suttoncommon.pdf. Accessed February 2016
- Van de Noort, R., Chapman, H. and Collis, J. (eds). 2007. Sutton Common: The Excavation of an Iron Age 'Marsh Fort'. CBA Research Report 154.
- Whiting, C. E. 1936. Excavations on Sutton Common, 1933, 1934 and 1935. Yorkshire Archaeol J. 33, 57_80