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Lanternside
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0540
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0540 (540)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Harbottle
- National Grid reference
- NT 94783 02515
- Latitude
- 55.31671
- Longitude
- -2.08374
- Altitude
- 169 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1869); Other (1957); Other (1963); Other (1970); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011394
- HER
- Northumberland 1152
- National record
- record NT 90 SW 10; monument 1890
- Wikidata
- Q31111164
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 121
- MacLauchlan, H. 1869. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London), 50