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Ring Chesters
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0471
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0471 (471)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8670 2890
- Latitude
- 55.55365
- Longitude
- -2.21231
- Altitude
- 341 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.41 ha, 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Out-turned (South east); In-turned (South east); Oblique (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1860); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919); Other (1955); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (2001); Other (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008364
- HER
- Northumberland 588
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 24; monument 671
- Wikidata
- Q31110732
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeologia Aeliana (4th Series) Volume: XLIII, 21-62.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 466-7
- Oswald, A, Pearson, T and Ainsworth, S York. 2002. Ring Chesters, Northumberland: An Iron Age Hillfort and its Environs. English Heritage. Unpublished.
- 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