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Camp Hill, Downham
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0510
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0510 (510)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carham
- National Grid reference
- NT 86814 34074
- Latitude
- 55.60014
- Longitude
- -2.21082
- Altitude
- 156 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1951); Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006525
- HER
- Northumberland 847
- National record
- record NT 83 SE 2; monument 1173
- Wikidata
- Q31110915
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 120
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 464