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Wether Hill

Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0560

Wether Hill is a contour fort in Ingram, Northumberland, England.

Other names on the record: Corbie Cleugh Camp.

It is recorded as extant, with a bivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank, and an enclosed area of 0.24 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and a knoll or outcrop, at 303 m, and facing southwest.

Recorded land use includes heather moorland.

Dating evidence is recorded for 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50 (Artefactual and C14). Reliability is recorded as A - High.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (1021382).

Location

Atlas number
EN0560 (560)
Country
England
Current county or unitary authority
Northumberland
Historic county
Northumberland
Parish, community, or townland
Ingram
National Grid reference
NU 0130 1443
Latitude
55.42388
Longitude
-1.98091
Altitude
303 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
4
Enclosed area
0.24 ha
Footprint
0.69 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop and knoll or outcrop
Aspect
southwest
Land use
heather moorland

Dating

Dating
800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
Artefactual and C14
Dating reliability
A - High

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
round stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
Interior excavation
roundhouses
Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1934); Other (1957); Other (1976); Geophysical Survey (1998); Other (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Excavation (1994-2000)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
1021382
HER
Northumberland 3191 (second identifier 60295 (Canmore))
National record
record NU 01 SW 2; monument 5329
Wikidata
Q31111258

Sources

References

  1. English Heritage AML. 1998, Wether Hill Hillfort, Ingram: geophysical survey. AML unpublished report.
  2. Hamilton, D. 2010. The use of radiocarbon and Bayesian modelling to (re)write later Iron Age settlement histories in east-central Britain. PhD Thesis, University of Leicester.
  3. Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  4. Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63
  5. MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 55.
  6. Oswald, A. Ainsworth, A. and Pearson, T. 2008. Iron Age hillforts in their landscape contexts: a fresh look at the field evidence in the Northumberland Cheviots. Arch Aeliana 5th series 37, 1-45
  7. Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. 2012. Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland. Till-Tweed studies, Vol 2. Oxbow
  8. Topping, P. 2004. Hillforts, farm and fields. Excavations on Wether Hill, Ingram 1993-2002. in P Frodsham (ed.) Archaeology in Northumberland National Park. York, CBA Res Rep 136, 190-201
  9. Topping, P. and McOmish, D. 2000. Excavations at Wether Hill, Northumberland, 1999: final interim report. NAG News: The Newsletter of the Northumberland Archaeological Group.