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Curls Walls
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0514
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0514 (514)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chatton
- National Grid reference
- NU 0760 2832
- Latitude
- 55.54856
- Longitude
- -1.88109
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3399
- National record
- record NU 02 NE 11; monument 5465
- Wikidata
- Q31110864
Sources
References
- 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. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland, Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63, no. 103
- MacLauchlan, H. 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London), 33