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Spindlestone Heugh
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0529
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0529 (529)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Easington
- National Grid reference
- NU 1525 3392
- Latitude
- 55.59870
- Longitude
- -1.75970
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, lowland, and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1924); Other (1955); Other (1964); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014745
- HER
- Northumberland 5242
- National record
- record NU 13 SE 2; monument 7567
- Wikidata
- Q31111075
Sources
References
- Craw, J.H. 1924. Report of Meetings for 1924, Appendix Spindleston Fort. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club. 25, 2 197-8 plan
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 126