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Hetchester Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0546
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0546 (546)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hepple
- National Grid reference
- NT 9813 0147
- Latitude
- 55.30735
- Longitude
- -2.03100
- Altitude
- 183 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1825); Other (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 1222
- National record
- record NT 90 SE 32; monument 1805
- Wikidata
- Q31111118
Sources
References
- Dixon, D.D. 1903 Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland: its history, traditions, and folk lore. R. Redpath, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.125-6
- Mackenzie, E. (ed) 1825. An historical, topographical and descriptive view of the county of Northumberland. 2nd Ed. Vol II. Mackenzie and Dent
- MacLauchlan,H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (Alnwick) 84