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Record Details

HER Number:	02847/01
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Putative Iron Age Hillfort, Worsborough Common, Barnsley

Summary

The site of a possible Iron Age hillfort at Worsborough Common. The site has now been built over.

Grid Reference:	SE 347 050
Map Sheet:	SE30NW
Parish:	BARNSLEY CENTRAL, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Monument Type(s):

HILLFORT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds:

None

Full Description

<1> "An almost certain hillfort (Iron Age), considerably damaged" at Worsbrough Common. Now built over.
Appears on first Edition OS as 'Highstone Hill' now known as 'Castle Hill'. [LM 18/3/2004]

<1> A.J. Challis & D.W. Harding (Eds.), 1975, Later Prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne, part II p. 47 (Bibliographic reference). SSY970.

Sources and further reading

<1>	SSY970 - Bibliographic reference: A.J. Challis & D.W. Harding (Eds.). 1975. Later Prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. British Archaeological Report 20. part II p. 47.

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