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Barcombe Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0493
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0493 (493)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bardon Mill
- National Grid reference
- NY 7830 6682
- Latitude
- 54.99551
- Longitude
- -2.34072
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1939); Excavation (1950); Other (1960); Other (1966); Other (1999); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018536
- HER
- Northumberland 6569
- National record
- record NY 76 NE 19; monument 15186
- Wikidata
- Q31110843
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1969. Barcombe Hill Signal Station, Thorngrafton. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series)183-185
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland. 21-64 Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 26
- Woodfield, P. 1966. Barcombe Hill, Thorngrafton. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 44, 71-7