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The Ringles
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0554
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0554 (554)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilderton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9898 2299
- Latitude
- 55.50072
- Longitude
- -2.01769
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1865); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1976); Other (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014931
- HER
- Northumberland 1738
- National record
- record NT 92 SE 26; monument 3375
- Wikidata
- Q31111216
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43. No 33
- MacLauchlan, H., 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 43-4.