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Shackleton Beacon Hill
County Durham, England ยท Atlas EN0118
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0118 (118)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- County Durham
- Historic county
- County Durham
- Parish, community, or townland
- Heighington
- National Grid reference
- NZ 22943 23298
- Latitude
- 54.60435
- Longitude
- -1.64634
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 4, SW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1953); Other (1962); Other (1981); Other (1984); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016867
- HER
- County Durham 2399904 (second identifier 2303474, 2399905, 2303474, 2399906, 2303474)
- National record
- record NZ 22 SW 4; monument 24041
- Wikidata
- Q31112546
Sources
References
- Archaeo-Environment Ltd 1983-4. Limestone Landscapes Historic Environment Audit And Action Plan; Durham Magnesian Limestone Survey. RCHME
- Hutchinson, W. 1785-1794. The history and antiquities of the county palatine, of Durham. Volumes III, p 205
- Page, W. (ed) 1905 The Victoria history of the county of Durham, Vol. I. 349-50