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Submitted by MonumentMan on Thursday, 12 November 2020  Page Views: 1151

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castle Crag Hillfort
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.6 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Cumbria Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Penrith  Nearest Village: Shap
Map Ref: NY4692412763
Latitude: 54.507386N  Longitude: 2.821205W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : Inner rock-cut ditch and rampart with modern drystone wall running across the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Cumbria

The earth work remains of a naturally defended Iron-Age slight univallate Hillfort measuring 46m x 22m situated on Castle Crag (396m) overlooking Haweswater Reservoir.
Castle Crag is a natural headland, precipitous to cliffs on 3 sides and on the 4th SW side defended by 2 separate deep rock-cut ditches and a great earthen rampart of stones. The earthen rampart is 5m high from the floor of the inner ditch to the piled stones on the summit of the fort. The inner ditch is 4m wide, 2m deep and is separated from the outer rock cut ditch (10m wide, 3m deep) by a rocky knoll. Outside the outer ditch is a rectangular artificially levelled area measuring c19m by 15m which enhances a terrace in the adjacent hillside.
The entrance to the fort is on the SW, up a ledge of rock and easily defensible. Excavations in 1922 found floors of level clay with charcoal trodden inside the rampart, but no pottery or building remains.

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Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : I resurrected a fallen pile, on the bottom left. Viewing the photo at home, it appears to be smiling ! June, 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : Sheltering area near to summit. June, 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : Showing just how close the former quarry came to decapitating the summit. June, 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : The top of the slate scree/spoil heap, levels out, and all around are these erections. I have heard that they are sometimes pushed down, they just to reappear again. June, 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : A calm and tranquil area, near the summit. June, 2011. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by nicoladidsbury : Castle Crag Hillfort Castle Crag is the small pointed hill in the center of the valley. The setting winter sun throws a shaft of sunlight through Honister pass into the valley. Magic! (5 comments)

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : On top of the summit, viewing Derwent Water. This area is now a World War 1 memorial site, and owned by the National Trust. On the way up the view of Borrowdale is stunning, and has been described by A. Wainwright as 'the loveliest square mile in Lakeland'. June, 2011.

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Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by Antonine : From the Bowder Stone, 2011

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Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2011

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by Antonine

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : The cliffs to the NE of the Hillfort fall abruptly and dramatically onto a boulder strewn hillside - no place for anyone to fall from the fort above! A major reason why the fort was so well naturally defended. It must be remembered Haweswater did not exist in its present watery extent in Iron-Age times but a deep valley and small tarn did.

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Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : The NW cliffed flank of Castle Crag

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : Inside the Hillfort looking SW back at the inner rampart of stones and Birks Crag behind

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : The massive earthen rampart of the fort and the inner ditch, Haweswater to the SE.

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : Castle Crag Hillfort looking NW from Speaking crag foreland across Haweswater. The fort is clearly seen as a rounded profile with inner ditch on top of the naturally cliffed crag.

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by MonumentMan : Castle Crag Hillfort looking NE towards the forts massive rampart (Haweswater to the rear) and showing the two rock-cut ditches on approach as defences on the hillside.

Castle Crag Hillfort
Castle Crag Hillfort submitted by WindC : From below, the spoil heap looks like a treacherous pile of slate. A well trodden zig zaggy path will take you up. Before you get to this point, you will have passed the nearby cave of the late Millican Dalton. If you know nothing of him, I hope you may look him up. Someone I would have loved to have met. June, 2011.

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