Wincobank
Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Wincobank |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Yorkshire |
| Modern Authority | Sheffield |
| 1974 Authority | South Yorkshire |
| Civil Parish | Sheffield |
In Clark's list of moated mounds or burhs, for Yorkshire, is recorded 'Wincobank.–Moated mound.'
This is Wincobank Camp 'The remains of an Iron Age slight univallate hillfort overlooking the Don Valley. The hillfort comprises an oval enclosure with an internal area of 1.1 hectares surrounded by a single rampart with an external ditch and counterscarp bank. A partial excavation of the rampart and counterscarp was carried out in 1899 by E Howarth. In 1979 a watching brief was carried out during the cutting of a drainage ditch through the north east rampart. Howarth found that the rampart was originally built as a wall 5.5 metres thick consisting of large stones facing a core of earth and rubble bonded by timber lacing. The counterscarp bank was built from earth and stone cast up from the ditch. Radio-carbon dates from the trench cut in 1979 indicate a construction date of circa 500 BC while burnt and vitrified stone and charred timber found by Howarth show that the rampart was destroyed by fire.' (PastScape)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SK377909 |
| Latitude | 53.4143714904785 |
| Longitude | -1.43320000171661 |
| Eastings | 437770 |
| Northings | 390990 |
