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Reaveley Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0556
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0556 (556)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NU 0042 1682
- Latitude
- 55.44528
- Longitude
- -1.99491
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hornwork (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1957); Other (1970); Other (1976); Other (1986); Earthwork Survey (1988); Other (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006544
- HER
- Northumberland 3077
- National record
- record NU 01 NW 27; monument 5050
- Wikidata
- Q31111229
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.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (Alnwick), 53. Unpublished.
- Topping, P. and Pearson, T. 1988. The South-East Cheviots Project: A Descriptive Account of the Prehistoric Landscape. Research Department Report Series no. 83-2003