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Soldiers Fold
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0547
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0547 (547)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hepple
- National Grid reference
- NY 97159 99461
- Latitude
- 55.28929
- Longitude
- -2.04628
- Altitude
- 119 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1940); Other (1957); Other (1971); Other (1993); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970-1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008886
- HER
- Northumberland 9700
- National record
- record NY 99 NE 12; monument 19555
- Wikidata
- Q31111187
Sources
References
- Dodds, M.H., 1940. A History of Northumberland, vol.15 (Newcastle upon Tyne), 56
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 167