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Green Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0552
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0552 (552)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Horncliffe
- National Grid reference
- NT 9191 4907
- Latitude
- 55.73506
- Longitude
- -2.13034
- Altitude
- 33 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1962); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1903)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 2208
- National record
- record NT 94 NW 2; monument 4009
- Wikidata
- Q31111131
Sources
References
- Gates, T. and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-71.