<< Our Photo Pages >> The Battery Enclosure - Misc. Earthwork in England in Cumbria
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Multi-periodSite Name: The Battery Enclosure Alternative Name: Caer Mote Enclosure; The Battery (Torpenhow)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.172 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cumbria Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Wigton Nearest Village: Ireby
Map Ref: NY19653775
Latitude: 54.728289N Longitude: 3.249186W
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 |
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Unexcavated earthwork - possible iron age enclosure?
The entry for Pastscape Monument ID 9445 describes this site as "Earthwork remains of a hilltop double banked sub-rectangular enclosure with no internal features; no dating evidence, possibly Roman or post-Roman. Scheduled."
The entry on Historic England List Entry 1007145 classes this as a 'native settlement' but gives very little detail: "The monument includes the remains of a settlement enclosure, situated at the north end of a north-south ridge with views to the north, east and west. The enclosure is D-shaped and measures approximately 64m by 55m. It is surrounded by a ditch with an inner bank and an outer counterscarp bank with causewayed entrances on the east and west sides."
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