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Castle Knowe Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0561
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0561 (561)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NU 03142 14673
- Latitude
- 55.42598
- Longitude
- -1.95190
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 9
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1934); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1988); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006542
- HER
- Northumberland 3193
- National record
- record NU 01 SW 4; monument 5341
- Wikidata
- Q31111266
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 55