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<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle Steads - Hillfort in England in Yorkshire (North)
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Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 21 July 2002 Page Views: 4816
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England
Site Name: Castle Steads Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: NZ112075 Landranger Map Number: 92
Latitude: 54.462757N Longitude: 1.828729W
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 |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Hillfort in North Yorshire
This univallate hillfort sits on a spur overlooking Newsham, North Yorks.
It measures 230m x 130m with the banks, ditches & walling in varying states of repair. It was obviously built for defensive purposes judging by its position, with steep slopes leading to becks on 3 sides.
Although some of the outer bank has succumbed to landslip, much of the inner bank still remains & measures 6m (width) in places. Evidence of walling on top of the banks can be seen at the northern end.
This site is on M.o.D land so permission should be sought from the range warden before accessing it.
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 Castle Steads submitted by rich32
About 300m south of the hillfort is a substantial bank (6.5m wide) & ditch (10m wide) which runs to the tune of 300meters E-W.
Not quite sure why its in this position, but maybe it’s a later edition to the site & offered some protection to folks living just outside the original hillfort, with fences running down from the ramparts to this feature… (just my deluded thoughts only)
 Castle Steads submitted by rich32
99.9% of the walling is in a ruinous state, 5 lone stones (right of centre) stand in whats probably their original position.
 Castle Steads submitted by rich32
These walls must have been some sight 2800yrs ago, been in the region of 2.5m thick & 3-4m high.
Tim Laurie (2nd from right) who was guiding people round the site stands on the outside of hillfort.
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