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Bewick Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0500
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0500 (500)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bewick
- National Grid reference
- NU 07507 21566
- Latitude
- 55.48787
- Longitude
- -1.88275
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.39 ha, 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Excavation (1934); Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006580
- HER
- Northumberland 3605
- National record
- record NU 02 SE 7; monument 5743
- Wikidata
- Q31110881
Sources
References
- Charlton J. 1935. Report on a trial excavation at Old Bewick. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle. Series 4, 6, 252-6
- 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.
- Jobey, G .1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series)