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DUNMALLARD HILLFORT

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Earthwork remains of a small Iron Age multivallate hillfort.

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(NY 46772462) Earthwork (NR) (1)

An oval camp of a little less than an acre, measuring 103 yds long and 42 yds wide at the centre, is situated on the summit of Dunmallard Hill. (2)

The defences consist of a double rampart and ditch on the N Side (3), and a single rampart and ditch on the S and W sides. The defences on the E side are lost. The ramparts seem to have been further strengthened by a dry stone wall, traces of which are still visible. The main entrance is at the S extremity of the W side and a mound of earth in the centre of the enclosure is possibly the site of an interior citadel. (2-3)

Scheduled as "Dunmallet hill fort". (4)

As described. Published survey (25") revised. (5)

NY 468246. Oval camp at Dunmallard Hill listed as an Iron Age hill fort by Challis and Harding although they add that the context is obscure, and may be of the post-Roman period. Higham and Jones list the site "Dunmallard Hill: hillfort capping hilltop". (6-8)

NY 468246. Dunmallet hill fort, scheduled. (9)

NY 468 246. Dunmallard Hill. Listed in gazetteer of British hillforts. (10)

NY 46772463 Dunmallard small multivallate hillfort. An enclosure with internal measurements of approximately 92m north-south by 39m east-west. The enclosure is defended on all sides except the central part of the east side, where it has eroded down a steep slope, by a partly stone-revetted bank measuring up to 9m wide and 3m high and an external ditch measuring up to 9m wide and 1m deep. A second bank and ditch of slighter proportions protect the northern end of the site. The entrance into the hillfort's interior is located at the southern end of the western side where a narrow gap penetrates obliquely through the defences; scheduled. (11)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1957

( 2) General reference

Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq and Archaeol Soc OS 1 1874 pp157-9 (M W Taylor)

( 3) General reference

Trans Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq and Archaeol Soc 3 1878 p248 (J Clifton Ward)

( 4) General reference

DOE(IAM) AMs England 1971 p43

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHP 13-DEC-68

( 6) by A J Challis and D W Harding 1975 Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne

BAR British series1 (1974) - 20 (i) Page(s)122

( 7) by A J Challis and D W Harding 1975 Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne

BAR British series1 (1974) - 20 (ii) Page(s)46

( 8) General reference

Archaeol J 132 1975 "Frontiers Forts & Farmers" p36 (N J Higham and G D B Jones)

( 9) General reference

DOE(IAM) Anc Mons England 1 1978 p13

(10) by A H A Hogg 1979 British hillforts : an index

BAR British series1 (1974) - 62 Page(s)140

(11) General reference

English Heritage SAM Amendment 25.11.93

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