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Ros Castle
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0516
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0516 (516)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chillingham
- National Grid reference
- NU 08114 25331
- Latitude
- 55.52170
- Longitude
- -1.87303
- Altitude
- 316 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
- Water source
- spring and stream
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1595); 1st Identified Written Reference (1827); Earthwork Survey (1858); Other (1932); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1990); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006565
- HER
- Northumberland 3391 (second identifier 10208/MNA124826 (NT))
- National record
- record NU 02 NE 3; monument 5431
- Wikidata
- Q31110952
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.
- Hardie, C. 2010. Historic Environment Survey for The National Trust Properties in Northumberland: Ros Castle Prepared for the National Trust. December 2010. Archeo-Environment Ltd.
- www.aenvironment.co.uk/downloads/Ros%20Castle%20Management%20Plan.pdf
- Blood, K 1995. Ros Castle Iron Age hillfort, Chillingham. Northern Archaeology 12, 35-3
- Jobey, G.1965 Hillforts and Settlements. Archaeol Aeliana, 4th Series, 43, 60
- Parson & White Trade Directory 1827. Northumberland and Newcastle. Vol 2