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Camp Plantation
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0530
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0530 (530)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eglingham
- National Grid reference
- NU 1622 2318
- Latitude
- 55.50217
- Longitude
- -1.74477
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east and southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017955
- HER
- Northumberland 5032
- National record
- record NU 12 SE 5; monument 7457
- Wikidata
- Q31111087
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 125
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63. No. 111
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 12.