<< Our Photo Pages >> Scholes Wood - Hillfort in England in Yorkshire (South)
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Scholes WoodCountry: England County: Yorkshire (South) Type: Hillfort
Map Ref: SK395952 Landranger Map Number: 110
Latitude: 53.452085N Longitude: 1.406667W
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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dagadd visited on 1st Feb 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Plenty of litter around, which I cleared.
Plenty of trees growing from the ramparts.
No information board (two local dog-walkers had no idea what it was), although one would probably be destroyed.
MartinRS have visited here
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