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Ox Carr Wood
North Yorkshire, England ยท Atlas EN4382
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4382 (4382)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Yorkshire
- Historic county
- Yorkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Welburn
- National Grid reference
- SE 7361 6692
- Latitude
- 54.09293
- Longitude
- -0.87596
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1912); 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Excavation (1964); Earthwork Survey (1966); Other (1971); Geophysical Survey (1982); Other (1997); Earthwork Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016347
- HER
- North Yorkshire MNY12947
- National record
- record SE 76 NW 1; monument 59645
- Wikidata
- Q31112718
Sources
References
- Armitage, E. S. and Montgomerie, D. H. 1912. Ancient Earthworks. In W. Page (ed) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of Yorkshire. Volume 2, 1- 71. London: Constable & Co.
- Bartlett, A. 1982. Geophysics: Crambeck (AML Rep No 3614) Ancient Monuments Laboratory reports
- Hayes, R.H. 1966. Draft Report only (no details).
- Oswald, A and Keenan, E. Earthwork survey of the prehistoric promontory fort in Ox Carr Wood. Unpublished