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Humbledon Hill
Tyne and Wear, England · Atlas EN0105
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0105 (105)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Tyne and Wear
- Historic county
- County Durham
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sunderland
- National Grid reference
- NZ 3798 5522
- Latitude
- 54.89030
- Longitude
- -1.40941
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2003); Other (2011); Excavation (2006-2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1402212
- HER
- Tyne and Wear 13787
- National record
- record NZ 35 NE 286; monument 1547813
- Wikidata
- Q31119792
Sources
References
- Gaskell, N. 2007. Archaeological Evaluation on Land at 24 Alpine Way, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, CP/558/07. NPA Ltd: Nenthead, Cumbria. Unpublished Report
- Hale, D. and Still, D. 2003. Geophysical Surveys at Picktree, Chester-le-Street and Humbledon Hill, Sunderland. Durham Archaeol J. 17