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Fawcett Shank
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0469
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0469 (469)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 88714 23085
- Latitude
- 55.50145
- Longitude
- -2.18021
- Altitude
- 363 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1955); Other (1960); Other (1969); Other (1976); Other (1987); Other (1996); Earthwork Survey (1998); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014492
- HER
- Northumberland 666
- National record
- record NT 82 SE 2; monument 932
- Wikidata
- Q31110715
Sources
References
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Additional Notes to Roman Roads in Northumberland . 39
- Oswald, A. 2000. An Iron Age hillfort on Fawcett Shank, Northumberland. English Heritage. Unpublished
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. Pearson, T. 2008, Iron Age Hillforts in their Landscape Contexts: a Fresh Look at the Field Evidence in the Northumberland Cheviots, Archaeologia Aeliana, fifth 36: 1_45