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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lower DunishboothCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.12 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Lancashire Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Map Ref: SD8779616025
Latitude: 53.640594N Longitude: 2.186063W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Lancashire
Possible prehistoric or medieval bank and ditch cutting off a promontory, surviving as degraded earthworks and identified from GoogleEarth by a local amateur enthusias Stuart Mendelson. The bank underlies a dilapidated drystone wall likely to be of 18th or early 19th century origin and a gate through the wall may coincide with a way through the earthwork. The bank is straight, standing up to 0.6m high with a basal width of around 6m. There may have been ditches on both sides, but post-medieval ploughing up to the edge of the bank has degraded and distorted their original form.
Source: Pastscape
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