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A New Survey of Ingleborough Hillfort, North Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2014

M. C. B. Bowden ,
D. A. Mackay  and
N. K. Blood
N. K. Blood
Affiliation:
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Line Building, Haymarket Lane, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
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A survey of Ingleborough was undertaken by RCHME in the summer of 1988 at the request of the Yorkshire Dales National Park who are concerned by the considerable erosion and damage occurring on the Peak as a result of the popularity of the Three Peaks footpath. This is affecting not only the natural surface of the hill but also the archaeological remains.

The summit of Ingleborough, one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales, is a gritstone cap overlying the sandstone, shale and limestone beds of the Yoredale Series which, in turn, overlie the Great Scar Limestone. This formation gives Ingleborough its distinctive stepped profile, created by differential weathering, except where glacial drift forms smoother slopes on the flanks (Crutchley 1981, 41–44). The coarse gritstone forms a roughly triangular, plateau-like summit with only a slight rise from the rim to the highest point, at 723 m OD, now occupied by a triangulation pillar and cruciform walkers's shelter.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 267 - 271
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1989

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