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Staw Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0472
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0472 (472)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 88436 30103
- Latitude
- 55.56450
- Longitude
- -2.18448
- Altitude
- 255 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1935); Other (1965); Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1937-1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008218
- HER
- Northumberland 852
- National record
- record NT 83 SE 7; monument 1188
- Wikidata
- Q31110740
Sources
References
- Ainsworth, S. Oswald, A and Pearson, T. 2002. An Iron Age Hillfort on Staw Hill. English Heritage Archaeological Investigation Report Series AI/17/2002. Unpublished.
- Jobey, G .1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 61
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Additional Notes to Roman Roads in Northumberland . 36
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage