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Pawston Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0564
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0564 (564)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilham
- National Grid reference
- NT 85050 31850
- Latitude
- 55.58011
- Longitude
- -2.23869
- Altitude
- 217 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1951); Other (1966); Other (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006527
- HER
- Northumberland 868
- National record
- record NT 83 SE 23; monument 1238
- Wikidata
- Q31111298
Sources
References
- Archaeology Section, Tyne and Wear Museums,1994. Pawston Hill Camp, Kilham; Archaeological Survey. Unpublished
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 461