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Mid Hill Camp
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0568
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0568 (568)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 8812 2959
- Latitude
- 55.55994
- Longitude
- -2.18990
- Altitude
- 281 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, 800–400 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1895); Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1979); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008358
- HER
- Northumberland 609
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 45; monument 774
- Wikidata
- Q31111381
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- Oswald, A. and McOmish, D. Hillforts in the Northumberland National Park project: Mid Hill survey. English Heritage Report No: AI/2/2002. Unpublished
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage