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Old Fawdon Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0562
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0562 (562)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NU 0225 1414
- Latitude
- 55.42120
- Longitude
- -1.96600
- Altitude
- 315 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.6 ha, 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, palisade, and unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1934); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1979); Earthwork Survey (1988); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006543
- HER
- Northumberland 3195
- National record
- record NU 01 SW 6; monument 5351
- Wikidata
- Q31111279
Sources
References
- Topping, P. 1988. Landscape narratives: the South East Cheviots Project. Proc Prehist Soc, Issue 74.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (Alnwick), 55
- Gates, T, and Ainsworth, S. 1979. Field Survey in Northumberland. Unpublished Report for the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. pt 1 1-9-79 27-8