Box Hall/Castleton Moor (Enclosure) — The Modern Antiquarian

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Image of Box Hall/Castleton Moor (Enclosure) by fitzcoraldo

Ancient field walls close to enclosure.
With large stones used as cornerstones.

fitzcoraldo Sep 11, 2002

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Box Hall/Castleton Moor

Enclosure

fitzcoraldo Sep 8, 2002

Approach this site from the A171 to Castleton Road.
A track leads down to the enclosure.
The structure is roughly rectangular 26m x 40m and faces west overlooking Commondale Beck and Moor.
It is a banked enclosure with a shallow ditch.
Within the enclosure on the North West end is a circular depression approx 4m across.
20m to the north is a row of stones ? ancient field boundary with another row running off at right angles. Two large stones mark the corners.

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