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Fin Cop

Hob Uid: 309164
Location :
Derbyshire
Derbyshire Dales
Ashford in the Water
Grid Ref : SK1743071010
Summary : The Iron Age hillfort of Fin Cop is visible as earthworks on air photographs. The feature is extant on the latest Google.Earth.com 12-SEP-2005 photography (accessed on 09-JUL-2009). Damaged earthwork remains of an Iron Age hillfort.The work has been badly robbed and mutilated by quarrying and agriculture, but along the whole east side there are evident footings of a strong stone-built rampart; these continue, but deteriorate, to the south-west. The outer rampart and ditch can only be traced at the north end. The entrance is inturned and strongly marked.
More information : (SK 17467096). CAMP (LB). Fin Cop (TI). (1)

Fin Cop: A hill-fort with its north and west sides formed by the
steep scarp above the Wye, and its east and south by two banks and
ditches, the outer only preserved at the north end. A simple
entrance is through the east side, 370' from the north end. (2)

Plan (see Illust. card) (3)

160 yards outside the main work was another ditch and vallum. (4)

Scheduled. (5)

The only suggestion of Rooke's additional ditch and vallum on
APs is a linear marking between SK 17707112 and 17707075; there
are two ponds on it. (6)

Resurveyed at 1/2500. The work has been badly robbed and mutilated by quarrying and agriculture, but along the whole east side there are evident footings of a strong stone-built rampart; these continue, but deteriorate, to the south-west. The outer rampart and ditch can only be traced at the north end. The entrance is inturned and strongly marked. The AP line between SK 17707122 and SK 17707075 marks a covered water main, and no evidence of Rooke's extra ditch and vallum was found. (7)

Listed by Challis and Harding as an Iron Age hillfort, of 10
acres, with bank, ditch and counterscarp. (8)

Additonal references. (9-10)

SK 175 710. Fin Cop. Listed in gazetteer as a multivallate hillfort covering 4.0ha. (11)

Additional references (not consulted). (12-13)

The Iron Age hillfort of Fin Cop is visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at SK 1743 7101. The fort is visible on the west and south as large earthwork banks, with some areas of an external ditch visible. Centred at SK 1752 7101 is an entrance, defined by two large banks curving inward on the hillfort. The west and north limits of the hillfort are defined as very low relief banks and are only visible under snow cover in low light. Much of the southern half of the hillfort has been mutilated by limestone quarrying (UID 1465160), extraction pits (UID 1501137) and medieval ridge and furrow (UID 1501140). Within the limits of the fort a possible Bronze Age round barrow was also identified (UID 1501144). The feature is extant on the latest Google.Earth.com 12-SEP-2005 photography (accessed on 09-JUL-2009).
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Source details : OS 6" 1955
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Source details : Guide to Prehistoric England, 72 (Nicholas Thomas)
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Source details : BAR 62 British Hill-Forts: An Index 1979 155 (AHA Hogg)
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Source details : Vol 74 1954
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Source details : VCH Derbyshire 1 1905 369,71
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Source details : NMR RAF/58/4977 0162 07-MAR-1962
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Source details : NMR RAF/CPE/UK/2598 4133 16-APR-1948
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Source details : NMR SK 1770/4 NMR 17451/78 17-FEB-2000
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Source details : NMR SK 1770/20 NMR 20492/52 09-NOV-2005
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Source details : J. Derby A & NHS, 34, 1912, 133-8 (E. Tristram)
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Source details : Archaeologia, 12, 1796, 328 (Hayman Rooke)
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Source details : AMs Eng. Wales, 1961, 31 (MOW)
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Source details : APs CPE/UK: 2598/4132-4, 1948.
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Source details : BAR 20 pt2 Later Prehist from Trent-Tyne 1975, 47 (A J Challis & D W Harding)
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Source details : Hawke-Smith C F 1979 Man-Land Relations in Prehistoric Britain:The Dove-Derwent Interfluve,Derbyshire BAR British Series 64 Oxford BAR 173
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Source details : Hart CR 1981 The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500 Chesterfield:The N Derbyshire Archaeol Trust 75
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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 : Multivallate Hillfort, Hillfort
Evidence : Earthwork
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Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : DR 80
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Derbyshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 419
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 17 SE 15
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Related Warden Records :
Associated Monuments :
Relationship type : General association
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Relationship type : General association
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Relationship type : General association
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Relationship type : General association
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Relationship type : General association
Related Activities :
Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1965-12-15
End Date : 1965-12-15
Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1993-01-01
End Date : 1993-12-31
Associated Activities :
Activity type : DESK BASED ASSESSMENT
Start Date : 2009-01-01
End Date : 2009-12-31
Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 2009-01-01
End Date : 2009-12-31
Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2009-05-05
End Date : 2010-06-15