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Shipley Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0531
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0531 (531)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eglingham
- National Grid reference
- NU 13965 17694
- Latitude
- 55.45291
- Longitude
- -1.78114
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Outworks (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1951); Other (1966); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (1955)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014075
- HER
- Northumberland 4370
- National record
- record NU 11 NW 11; monument 6983
- Wikidata
- Q31111096
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1951. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 163
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana 4th Series 43, 62, No 54