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Bantam Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0496
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0496 (496)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Belsay
- National Grid reference
- NZ 0796 7853
- Latitude
- 55.10115
- Longitude
- -1.87678
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.47 ha, 1.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1935); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1985); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1903)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1015517
- HER
- Northumberland 10244
- National record
- record NZ 07 NE 16; monument 20738
- Wikidata
- Q31110855
Sources
References
- Blood, K., Welfare, H., Sainsbury, I. & Topping, P. 1986. Belsay: A Landscape Survey, Northumberland. RCHME. Unpublished
- Maclauchan H. 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the Eastern Branch of the Watling Street, 7-8