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Castle Hill Callaly
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0504
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0504 (504)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingham and Callaly
- National Grid reference
- NU 06028 09720
- Latitude
- 55.38145
- Longitude
- -1.90641
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1947); Other (1957); Other (1972); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011090
- HER
- Northumberland 2752
- National record
- record NU 00 NE 3; monument 4323
- Wikidata
- Q31110891
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th series, 43, 43-4, 62 no.80