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Gipton Wood is a Late prehistoric enclosed settlement located at the southern end of Oakwood Drive in Yorkshire, England. The site comprises the remains of an ancient enclosure, representative of settlement patterns established during the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age in the region. The monument's earthwork features include ditched enclosures that would have functioned as boundaries for domestic occupation and possibly stock management. Such enclosed settlements are significant for understanding late prehistoric settlement organisation and land use in Yorkshire, indicating a period of more formalised territorial and social structures among contemporary communities.
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood Drive is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018257. View the official record →
Gipton Wood is a Late prehistoric enclosed settlement located at the southern end of Oakwood Drive in Yorkshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018257.
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood Drive is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1018257.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Rock carved human figure 570m south of King Lane Farm (5.6 km), Length of Grim's Ditch 260m west of Brown Moor Farm (5.6 km), Shrunken medieval village of Colton (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood Drive's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Late prehistoric enclosed settlements in Gipton Wood, at the southern end of Oakwood Drive stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.