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Blue Crags
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0518
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0518 (518)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chollerton
- National Grid reference
- NY 94642 76088
- Latitude
- 55.07924
- Longitude
- -2.08546
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.64 ha, 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1852); Other (1954); Other (1961); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Excavation (1924-1925)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011403
- HER
- Northumberland 9202
- National record
- record NY 97 NW 23; monument 18947
- Wikidata
- Q31110995
Sources
References
- Ball, T. 1927. Blue Crag Promontory Fort, Colwell, Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle 4 ser 2, 23-24
- MacLauchlan, H. 1852. Memoir written during a survey of the Watling Street (Alnwick), 25