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Castle Ring
Hob Uid: 311357
Location : Derbyshire Derbyshire Dales Harthill
Grid Ref : SK2207062830
Summary : Earthwork remains of an Iron Age hillfort.
More information : [SK 2207 6283] Castle Ring [T.I.] CAMP [O.E.] (1) Castle Ring is an oval hill-fort of 3/4 acre with a bank, ditch and a counterscarp bank except on the S.E. where both banks and ditch have disappeared. Rooke, however, found the entrance "very visible on the S.E. where part of the vallum has been levelled by the plough." (a) (2) Scheduled. (3) A small defensive earthwork occupying the crest of a small hill, no entrance is now visible,but there is a probable outer defence work to the south. The work appears to be a hill top refuge rather than a fort proper. Published 25" survey revised. (4) Listed by Challis and Harding as an Iron Age hillfort, of 0.75acres with bank, ditch and counterscarp. (5) Additional references. (6) (7) SK 220 628. Castle Ring, Harthill. Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 0.3ha. (8) Additional reference (not consulted). (9)

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Source details : O.S. 6" 1955.
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Source details : J Derby A. & N.H.S. 74 1954 12 (F.L.Preston)
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Source details : Arch 6 1779 113 (H Rooke)
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Source details : A.Ms. Eng Wales 1961 31 (M.O.W.)
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Source details : F1 FDC 16-NOV-66
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Source details : BAR 20 pt2 Later Prehist from Trent-Tyne 1975 47 (AJ Challis & DW Harding)
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : Hawke-Smith CF 1979 Man-Land Relations in Prehist Brit: The Dove-Derwent Interfluve, Derbys. BAR Brit Ser 64 119,173 Oxford:BAR
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : Derbys Origins 1978 22-3 fig (FL Preston) Sheffield City Museums
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : BAR 62 British Hill-Forts: An Index 1979 155 (AHA Hogg)
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : VCH Derbyshire 1 1905 371-2
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Univallate Hillfort
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DR 93
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 26 SW 4
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1966-11-16
End Date : 1966-11-16

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Castle Ring