Location
- Atlas number
- EN0548 (548)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hepple
- National Grid reference
- NY 9816 9934
- Latitude
- 55.28824
- Longitude
- -2.03045
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East); Out-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- Other (1932); Excavation (1936); Other (1957); Other (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008873
- HER
- Northumberland 9692
- National record
- record NY 99 NE 4; monument 19515
- Wikidata
- Q31111198
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- Wake, T. 1939. Excavations at Witchy Neuk, Hepple. Archaeol Aeliana 4 ser 16. 129-139