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Fenton Hill Camp
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0524
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0524 (524)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doddington
- National Grid reference
- NT 97940 35415
- Latitude
- 55.61236
- Longitude
- -2.03426
- Altitude
- 93 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Footprint
- 1.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and lowland
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- postholes, roundhouses, roads or tracks, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1935); Other (1964); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922); Excavation (1971-1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006536
- HER
- Northumberland 1953
- National record
- record NT 93 NE 11; monument 3594
- Wikidata
- Q31111064
Sources
References
- Burgess C. 1972, Fenton Hill Camp, Northumberland, Arch News Bull Northum Cumb & Westm., No.13, 4-5
- Burgess C. 1973, Fenton Hill Camp, Northumberland, CBA Grp III Bull No.4 (May 1973) pp 1-2
- Burgess, C. B. 1984. The Prehistoric Settlement of Northumberland: a speculative survey. In R. Miket and C. Burgess (eds). Between and Beyond the walls: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey. Edinburgh, John Donald. 126-175
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 470