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Maiden Castle
Cumbria, England ยท Atlas EN4347
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4347 (4347)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cumbria
- Historic county
- Cumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Matterdale
- National Grid reference
- NY 4512 2435
- Latitude
- 54.61149
- Longitude
- -2.85125
- Altitude
- 226 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1870); Other (1924); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008633
- HER
- Lake District National Park 1165
- National record
- record NY 42 SE 3; monument 11134
- Wikidata
- Q31110646
Sources
References
- Challis A.J. and Harding D.W. 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne; BAR British Series 1 (1974) - 20(ii), 51
- Maclean, H. 1912. Caerthannoc or Maidencastle, Soulby Fell. Trans Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiq Arch Soc. new ser.'XII, (1912), 143-6
- Taylor, M. W. 1870. On the Vestiges of Celtic Occupation Near Ullswater. Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq Arch Soc . Vol.1 (1870),159-164