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Oxhill Plantation
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0519
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0519 (519)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chollerton
- National Grid reference
- NY 93997 75744
- Latitude
- 55.07614
- Longitude
- -2.09555
- Altitude
- 173 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); Other (1961); Other (1967); Other (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011408
- HER
- Northumberland 9207
- National record
- record NY 97 NW 28; monument 18970
- Wikidata
- Q31111005
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 175