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Bewick Hill Moor Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0499
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0499 (499)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bewick
- National Grid reference
- NU 0875 2199
- Latitude
- 55.49166
- Longitude
- -1.86306
- Altitude
- 187 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 1.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Out-turned (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1935); Other (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006582
- HER
- Northumberland 3607
- National record
- record NU 02 SE 9; monument 5753
- Wikidata
- Q31110860
Sources
References
- Dodds, M.H. 1935. A History of Northumberland, vol.14 (Newcastle upon Tyne), 43, 64, fig.16
- Gates, T. and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-71.