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The Ringses Camp, Beanley Moor
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0541
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0541 (541)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hedgeley
- National Grid reference
- NU 0999 1860
- Latitude
- 55.46118
- Longitude
- -1.84356
- Altitude
- 142 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West); Recesses/Guard Chambers (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1932); Other (1955); Other (1977); Other (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1890-1891)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006594
- HER
- Northumberland 3145
- National record
- record NU 01 NE 7; monument 4833
- Wikidata
- Q31111166
Sources
References
- Gates, T. and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-71.
- Hardy, J. 1890. Report of meeting for 1890. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club. Vol. 14, 32
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 71