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Monday Cleugh
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0479
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0479 (479)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Akeld
- National Grid reference
- NT 9561 2849
- Latitude
- 55.55016
- Longitude
- -2.07112
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1932); Other (1955); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015639
- HER
- Northumberland 1527
- National record
- record NT 92 NE 39; monument 2588
- Wikidata
- Q31110774
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 122
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 24, 454-5