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Humbleton Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0478
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0478 (478)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Akeld
- National Grid reference
- NT 9669 2826
- Latitude
- 55.54809
- Longitude
- -2.05398
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 4.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.3 ha, 0.29 ha, 1 ha
- Footprint
- 4.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1769); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1934); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1997); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016714
- HER
- Northumberland 1544
- National record
- record NT 92 NE 56; monument 2661
- Wikidata
- Q31110761
Sources
References
- Northern Archaeological Associates, 2000. Humbleton Hill Hillfort, Wooler: archaeological recording of fire damaged area. Northern Counties Archaeological Services [assessment & evaluation reports]. Unpublished
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- RCHME 1997 Humbleton Hill, Northumberland. Field Survey Report. Unpublished
- Waddington C. 1998, Humbleton Hill Hillfort Survey, Northern Archaeol Vol.15/16; 71-81
- 2000-2001, 42.