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Brough Law
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0559
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0559 (559)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NT 9985 1636
- Latitude
- 55.44118
- Longitude
- -2.00388
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain 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 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Excavation (1861); Other (1934); Other (1957); Other (1969); Excavation (1971); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Earthwork Survey (1983-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021382
- HER
- Northumberland 1282
- National record
- record NT 91 NE 29; monument 1033854
- Wikidata
- Q31111242
Sources
References
- Tate 1861. Mr Tate on the Celtic Towns at Greaves Ash. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club IV 1856-62, 304-5
- Jobey G. 1971. Excavations at Brough Law and Ingram Hill. Archaeol Aeliana 4th series, Vol. 49, 71-85
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Richmond, I.A. 1922. Excavations in a native settlement at Ingram Hill, Northumberland. A.H.A. Note on the pottery by I.A Richmond. 123-4. Archaeol Aeliana. 20, 123-4