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Sinkside Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0571
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0571 (571)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 8842 2628
- Latitude
- 55.53015
- Longitude
- -2.18500
- Altitude
- 329 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1965); Other (1967); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922); Other (1999-2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009529
- HER
- Northumberland 569
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 5; monument 584
- Wikidata
- Q31111397
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 120
- 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 , 468-69