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Glead's Cleugh Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0477
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0477 (477)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Akeld
- National Grid reference
- NT 9488 2909
- Latitude
- 55.55551
- Longitude
- -2.08260
- Altitude
- 222 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1862); Other (1955); Other (1965); Other (1969); Other (1973); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2000-2001); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014930
- HER
- Northumberland 1401
- National record
- record NT 92 NW 15; monument 2858
- Wikidata
- Q31110752
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62.
- Jobey, G .1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 61
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Pearson, T and Ainsworth S. 2001. An Iron Age Hillfort at Glead's Cleugh, Northumberland. Unpublished.
- Tate, G. 1862. On the Old Celtic Town at Greaves Ash, near Linhope, Northumberland with an account of diggings recently made into this and other ancient remains in the valley of the Breamish. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 4 (1856-62) 293-316