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Craster Heugh
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0521
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0521 (521)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Craster
- National Grid reference
- NU 2554 1955
- Latitude
- 55.46915
- Longitude
- -1.59756
- Altitude
- 29 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, hillslope, and lowland
- Aspect
- southwest
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1895); Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1975); Other (1996); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014506
- HER
- Northumberland 5667
- National record
- record NU 21 NE 1; monument 8084
- Wikidata
- Q31111025
Sources
References
- Bateson, E. 1895. A History of Northumberland, Vol. 2 (Newcastle upon Tyne), 166-7.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 7
- Tolan-Smith C. 2008. North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment. Report ref. 2008/81. Archaeological Research Services. Unpublished