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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Portfield Alternative Name: Portfield Camp, Planeswood CampCountry: England County: Lancashire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Whalley Nearest Village: Read
Map Ref: SD7458135499 Landranger Map Number: 103
Latitude: 53.815146N Longitude: 2.387546W
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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This hillfort is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1013608 and recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 44511. Pastscape describe this as an Iron Age promontory fort, circa 3.5 acres, with man made defences on its northern and eastern sides, the remainder being defended by natural slopes. Their record adds the enclosure appears so flat as to suggest it has been artificially levelled; the defenses have "been considerably mutilated in modern times but survive best at the NW corner adjacent to the steep declavity to the W; they consist of an inner bank up to 1.5m high outside which is a berm 6m wide. Beyond this berm is a ditch up to 6m wide, then a second earthen bank 4m wide, then another ditch with a third earthen bank beyond".
The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for Portfield Hillfort, Whalley, Lancashire, which includes directions for finding this site, together with photographs, details of finds by workmen laying new pipes near the centre of the fort in 1966, and sources of further information.
Note: The hillfort is best viewed from the nearby road to the north-west.
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