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Castle Hill Alnham
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0480
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0480 (480)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alnham
- National Grid reference
- NT 9799 1094
- Latitude
- 55.39244
- Longitude
- -2.03323
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1932); Other (1958); Other (1969); Other (1976); Other (1989); Earthwork Survey (2000); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006609
- HER
- Northumberland 1338
- National record
- record NT 91 SE 9; monument 2260
- Wikidata
- Q31110778
Sources
References
- Jobey G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana 43, 61
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T, 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Pearson, T., Lax, A. and Ainsworth, S. 2001. An Iron Age Hillfort and its Environs on Castle Hill, Alnham, Northumberland. English Heritage. York. Unpublished