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Little Hetha Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0567
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0567 (567)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 88610 28050
- Latitude
- 55.54606
- Longitude
- -2.18207
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- guard chambers and annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Recesses/Guard Chambers (North west); Over-lapping (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1967); Other (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1920); Earthwork Survey (1976-1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014483
- HER
- Northumberland 634
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 70; monument 891
- Wikidata
- Q31111361
Sources
References
- 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, 468
- Topping, P. 1999. A Survey of Little Hetha Hillfort, Northumberland. Northern Archaeology. 1999, 123-7