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Buttony Wood Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0513
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0513 (513)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chatton
- National Grid reference
- NU 0186 3119
- Latitude
- 55.57440
- Longitude
- -1.97205
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1955); Other (1964); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006531
- HER
- Northumberland 3812
- National record
- record NU 03 SW 35; monument 6371
- Wikidata
- Q31110943
Sources
References
- Hogg A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland, Proc Soc Ant Newcastle (4th Series) Vol.11. 11, 140-179 and 157
- Jobey G. 1965, Hillforts and settlements in Northumberland, Arch Aeliana (4th Series) vol. 43. No.37
- MacLauchlan, H. 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London), 943