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Lordenshaws
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0551
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0551 (551)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brinkburn and Hesleyhurst
- National Grid reference
- NZ 0548 9925
- Latitude
- 55.28737
- Longitude
- -1.91526
- Altitude
- 268 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 1.74 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1940); Other (1957); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1990); Other (1999); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017196
- HER
- Northumberland 10736
- National record
- record NZ 09 NE 2; monument 21173
- Wikidata
- Q31111206
Sources
References
- Dodds, M.H., 1940. A History of Northumberland, Volume 15 (Newcastle upon Tyne), 30-2.
- Hedley, R.C. 1889. The Pre-Historic Camps of Northumberland, Lordenshaws or Lurganshaws. Archaeol Aeliana. New Series. Vol. 13, 226-29
- Mackay, D. and Topping, P. 1990. Lordenshaws Hillfort and Environs, Northumberland. RCHME. Unpublished
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T. 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Topping, P. 1993 Lordenshaws Hillfort and its Environs. Archaeol Aeliana ser 5 - Vol: 21, 15-27
- Welfare, H. 1991. Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England: Field Survey in Northumberland.RCHME. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne