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Shaftoe Crags
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0507
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0507 (507)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Capheaton
- National Grid reference
- NZ 0515 8170
- Latitude
- 55.12967
- Longitude
- -1.92077
- Altitude
- 186 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort, promontory fort, and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- southeast, south, and southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1963); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1986); Geophysical Survey (1993); Other (1993); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921-1922)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011835
- HER
- Northumberland 10566
- National record
- record NZ 08 SE 1; monument 21017
- Wikidata
- Q31110895
Sources
References
- Ball, T. 1921-2. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (3rd Series) 10, 242-4.
- Mitcham, J. L. 1993. An Investigation and Survey of Shaftoe Crags Hillfort, Northumberland. Unpublished Thesis, University of Nottingham, Department of Archaeology
- Sellers, P. Butcher B., Maddison, M. and Brown, S 1986 Shaftoe Crags hillfort, Northumberland [trivallate promontory-type, surveyed]. Northern Archaeol 7(2), 1986 43-5