Boltby Fort
Click HERE for a multimap of the area (Once its loaded move the mouse over the picture).
1850's OS map entry and the modern OS map for the area (right).
"Willmot's excavation of Boltby Fort yielded a large flat rimmed coarse sherd which Challis and Harding suggest can be dated to the first half of the first millenium B.C., by comparison with a similar sherd from Mam Tor, Derbyshire" The Cleave Dyke System. Spratt, D. York. Arch. 54 1982.
This Iron Age Hill Fort is mostly unrecorded and minimal information is available. A site visit is required to further understand the nature of the site. Note that both this, Roulston and Mam Tor have been dated at around 400BC.
This fort should be viewed in conjunction to any relationship between it, Roulston Scar and the Cleave Dyke system. Rows of filled in pits leading to two of the barrows shown by aerial photography indicate an earlier works was destroyed to create parts of the ditch system. See the report - Further Information on the Cleave Dyke System by D. Spratt - Yorks. Arch. 58 1986.
Air view from multimap.com, the barrow within
the fort can be clearly seen.
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