Location
- Atlas number
- EN0468 (468)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9280 2931
- Latitude
- 55.55746
- Longitude
- -2.11569
- Altitude
- 355 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 5.6 ha
- Footprint
- 6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1769); Other (1861); Excavation (1863); Other (1955); Excavation (1958); Other (1965); Other (1969); Other (1976); Other (1978); Geophysical Survey (1998); Earthwork Survey (1998); Other (1999); Other (2002); 1st Identified W
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006561
- HER
- Northumberland 1448
- National record
- record NT 92 NW 62; monument 3135
- Wikidata
- Q31110703
Sources
References
- English Heritage AML. 1998/Yeavering Bell Hillfort, Kirknewton: geophysical survey
- Hope-Taylor, B. 1977 Yeavering: An Anglo-British centre of early Northumbria. London.
- Jobey, G .1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- Oswald, A.W.P. and Pearson, T. 2005. Yeavering Bell hillfort, in Frodsham and O'Brien 2005, 98-126
- Oswald, A, Ainsworth, A and Pearson, T, 2008. Iron Age hillforts in their landscape contexts: a fresh look at the field evidence in the Northumberland Cheviots. Arch Aeliana 5th series 37, 1-45
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Pearson, T. 1998. Yeavering Bell Hillfort, Northumberland. RCHME, Swindon.
- Tate, G. 1863. The antiquities of Yevering Bell and Three Stone Burn, among the Cheviots in Northumberland, with an account of excavations made into Celtic forts, hut dwellings, barrows and stone circles. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 1856-62, 431-53