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Castle Stead Ring
Hob Uid: 47897
Location : Bradford Cullingworth
Grid Ref : SE0514036270
Summary : Iron Age enclosed settlement. The earthwork enclosure is roughly circular 105m by 108m across. The site has been cut in two by a road. The site is best preserved to the north where it survives as a ditch with an inner and outer bank. The inner bank is 5m wide and 0.5m high. The ditch is 3.5m wide and up to 0.5m deep. The outer bank is 2.5m wide and 0.3m high. A shallow ditch running north-south bisects the northern part of the enclosure. To the south of the road the site has been ploughed and the enclosure is visible as a cropmark. Scheduled.
More information : [SE 0514 3625] Castle Stead Ring [OE] (1) . Castlestead Ring - a roughly circular earthwork, (diameter c.300 feet). Only the north-west quadrant is extant; the remainder (ploughed out) is visible on APs (2). An excavation of the north part by S. Villy in 1911 (3) showed a bank, 6 feet high and 17 feet wide, with an outer ditch, 11 feet wide and 4 feet deep. There is slight counter scarping but no evidence of a second ditch, nor of post-holes or palisading. Grouped finds, near the bottom of the ditch in the NW quadrant included: small lumps of iron, fragments of coal and lead, a piece of worked chert and a discoidal gritstone. A few burnt stones were found but no hearths. (2-4) Castle Stead Ring is a univallate earthwork of unknown purpose, situated on level ground. It is extant on the north but the southern half has been destroyed by an occupation lane and ploughing. See 25" for revised survey and comments. (5) Survey 17.11.61 checked and correct. (6) Castlestead Ring listed by Challis and Harding as an oval earthwork (Iron Age). (7) SE 0514 3625. Castle Stead ring, Cullingworth. Additional references and bibliography. (8) Additional reference. (9)(10)(11) Scheduled (12) The enclosure is visible on air photographs and transcribed as part of the Lower Wharfedale NMP project. The northern section is visible as an earthwork but part of the southern section is visible as a cropmark. (13-14)

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Source details : OS 6" 1956
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Source details : RAF/541/117 4049 29-JUL-1948
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Source details : RAF/541/117 4336 29-Jul-1948
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Source details : NMR SE 0536/3 (WAS154/4) 13-NOV-1985
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Source details : Bradford Scientific Journal ff (plan) (F. Villy)
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Source details : Later Prehistory from Trent to Tyne 1975 (A J Challis & D W Harding)
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Source details : Yorks Notes and Queries
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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 : Enclosed Settlement
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 31497
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (West Yorkshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 101
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 03 NE 13
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Related Activities :

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1911-01-01
End Date : 1911-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1954-01-01
End Date : 1954-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1961-11-17
End Date : 1961-11-17

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1964-06-30
End Date : 1964-06-30

Associated Activities :
Activity type : GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY
Start Date : 1980-01-01
End Date : 1989-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2002-03-04
End Date : 2004-11-09

Historic England Research Records

Castle Stead Ring