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Great Hetha
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0470
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0470 (470)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 8855 2740
- Latitude
- 55.54022
- Longitude
- -2.18299
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.1 ha, 0.8 ha, 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1860); Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1965); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1998); Other (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014508
- HER
- Northumberland 611
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 47; monument 784
- Wikidata
- Q31110721
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th series, 43.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 24, 467-8.
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- 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', Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 37, 1-45.
- Pearson, T. and Lax, A. 2001 An Iron Age Hillfort on Great Hetha, Northumberland. Survey Report. English Heritage. Unpublished