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Camp Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0476
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0476 (476)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alnwick
- National Grid reference
- NU 1813 1237
- Latitude
- 55.40497
- Longitude
- -1.71524
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Other (1954); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1903)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 4506
- National record
- record NU 11 SE 20; monument 7147
- Wikidata
- Q31110695
Sources
References
- Tate, G. 1866. History of Alnwick, Vol.1 (Alnwick), 9