LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
Satellite Imagery
LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
Satellite Imagery
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HER: North York Moors National Park Not recorded (None)
NMR: NZ 60 SE 38 (1151276)
SM: 1017826
NGR: NZ 67592 04808
X: 467592 Y: 504808 (OSGB36)
Lying at 228m OD on the summit of Round Hill and to the E of Tower Beck, a small hillfort consisting of a univallate enclosure the ramparts increasing to multivallate across the neck of the promontory in the SE. The enclosed area of 2.0ha lies on a relatively level oval plateau measuring 71m by 139m aligned with its major axis orientated NNW to SSE. The area is defined by a break of slope except in the SSE. In the W 0.5-1m below the break of slope is a narrow berm 2m wide which broadens to 8-10m in the NE, formed from an in-filled ditch with a degraded bank on the outside. To the S the berm lies 2m below the top of the break of slope with a ditch and an external bank which continues for 60-70m as discontinuous sections, each on slightly different alignments, finally merging with the south-eastern circuit for 40m where it survives as two parallel ditches with a medial bank and possibly a further bank downslope. The bottom of the two ditches lie approximately 6m apart and 1.5m-1.8m deep on the uphill side and 0.4m-0.5m downhill. The entrance lies in the SE corner. The base of the slope is defined by a buried post medieval wall line largely defined by a line of trees. Some of the earthworks have been destroyed in the S since their recording on early aerial photographs. Probable post-medieval extraction has mutilated much of the eastern face. The site is not recorded on OS mapping and is undated.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -106807 Y: 7252824 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -0.9594654560390248 Latitude: 54.4342152548145 (EPSG:4326)
Country: England
Current County or Unitary Authority: North Yorkshire
Historic County: Yorkshire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Westerdale
None
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✗ |
Improved grassland
| Woodland | ✓ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✗ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
A partial contour fort occupying a relatively level plateau of a promontory at 228m OD, on the summit of Round Hill
| Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Promontory Fort | ✓ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✓ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✓ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Relatively level plateau on the summit of Round Hill
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✓ |
| Level | ✗ |
Altitude: 228.0m
N/A
The site is undated
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
Not recorded on OS mapping. It was mapped as part of the North York Moors NMP
| Other (1988): | Scheduled |
| Other (None): | North York Moors NMP |
No internal features are recorded
Tower Beck to the W. Other streams and springs in the vicinity.
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✓ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✓ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
The entrance lies in the SE corner
| 3: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. Simple Gap (South east): | Inner rampart |
| 1. Simple Gap (South east): | Middle rampart |
| 1. Simple Gap (South east): | Outer rampart (or counterscarp) |
Univallate enclosure increasing to multivallate in the SE and comprising at least two parallel ditches separated by approximately 6m with a medial bank and possibly a further bank downlope.
| Area 1: | 2.0ha. |
| Total: | 2.0ha. |
Total Footprint Area: Noneha.
None
| ✗ | Area approximate, estimated from satellite imagery |
| ✗ | Discontinuous sections on different alignments |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 3 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 3 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✓ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | infilled in places |
Number of Ditches: 2
| ✗ | None |
English Heritage. North York Moors Aerial Survey Mapping Summary Report National Mapping Programme 2. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/nyork-moors-nmp2/6445-nyork-moors-nmp2-summary-report.pdf. Accessed Feb. 2015
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Lock, Gary and Ralston, Ian. 2024. Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland. Available at: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk
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