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St. Gregory's Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0572
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0572 (572)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9160 2979
- Latitude
- 55.56175
- Longitude
- -2.13457
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north and northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1335); 1st Identified Written Reference (1860); Other (1955); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006535
- HER
- Northumberland 1429
- National record
- record NT 92 NW 43; monument 3028
- Wikidata
- Q31111406
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, 470
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Oswald, A, Ainsworth, A and Pearson, T, 2008. Iron Age hillforts in their landscape contexts: a fresh look at the field evidence in the Northumberland cheviots', Archaeol Aeliana 5th series 37, 1-45
- Oswald, A. and McOmish, D. 2002. Hillforts in the Northumberland National Park project: St Gregory's Hill Survey. English Heritage Report No: AI/1/2002. Unpublished