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Hepburn Crags Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0517
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0517 (517)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chillingham
- National Grid reference
- NU 07432 24689
- Latitude
- 55.51594
- Longitude
- -1.88385
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- north, south, and west
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1949); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1974); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1902)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006547
- HER
- Northumberland 3600
- National record
- record NU 02 SE 2; monument 5716
- Wikidata
- Q31110963
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.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 124
- MacLauchlan, H., 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London), 28.