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Loanend
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0553
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0553 (553)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Horncliffe
- National Grid reference
- NT 9353 5113
- Latitude
- 55.75326
- Longitude
- -2.10512
- Altitude
- 36 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable
- Water source
- flush
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 2416
- National record
- record NT 95 SW 22; monument 4310
- Wikidata
- Q31111139
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.