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Jenny's Lantern
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0542
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0542 (542)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hedgeley
- National Grid reference
- NU 1190 1514
- Latitude
- 55.43005
- Longitude
- -1.81349
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast, south, and southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Excavation (1885); Other (1956); Other (1970); Other (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008839
- HER
- Northumberland 4380
- National record
- record NU 11 NW 21; monument 7033
- Wikidata
- Q31111167
Sources
References
- Hardy, J.1885 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club part 1, 310-11
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 61 No 51