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North Black Hagg
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0569
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0569 (569)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 8833 2503
- Latitude
- 55.51891
- Longitude
- -2.18606
- Altitude
- 353 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- north and south
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1828); 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1955); Other (1967); Other (1994); Earthwork Survey (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1010336
- HER
- Northumberland 580
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 16; monument 637
- Wikidata
- Q31111387
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', 39
- Topping, P. 1999. A survey of North Black Hagg hillfort, Northumberland (NT 8836 2505) Northern Archaeol. 1999, 27-28