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Harehaugh Camp
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0539
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0539 (539)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harbottle
- National Grid reference
- NY 96947 99798
- Latitude
- 55.29232
- Longitude
- -2.04962
- Altitude
- 168 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 4, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.6 ha, 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- heath
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1825); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1932); Other (1957); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1994); Excavation (1998); Geophysical Survey (2001); Excavation (2002); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011397
- HER
- Northumberland 9694
- National record
- record NY 99 NE 6; monument 19523
- Wikidata
- Q31111159
Sources
References
- Biggins, A. J. 2001. A Geophysical Survey at Harehaugh Hillfort, Holystone, Northumberland. Timescape Archaeological Surveys. Unpublished report.
- Carlton, R. 2002. Harehaugh Hillfort, Northumberland, Archaeological Project. The Archaeological Practice. Newcastle upon Tyne
- Carlton, R. 2002. Archaeological Excavations at Harehaugh Hillfort in 2002. Archaeol Aeliana. 5/41. 85-115
- Dixon, D. D. 1903. Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland: its history, traditions, folk-lore and scenery . Robert Redpath, Newcastle upon Tyne, 121-2.
- Jobey, G. 1965 Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana 43, 21-64
- Mackenzie, E. 1825. An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county of Northumberland, Vol. II. Mackenzie and Dent. Newcastle.
- Phillips, A. S. 1957. Harehaugh Hillfort: Ordnance Survey Field Investigators Internal Report. Ordnance
- Survey (Unpublished).
- Waddington, C., Blood, K., and Crow, J. 1998. Survey and excavation at Harehaugh Hillfort and possible Neolithic enclosure. Northern Archaeology. Volume 15/16, 87-106
- Waddington, C. 1994. Newcastle University Interim Excavation Report