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West Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0573
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0573 (573)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9097 2950
- Latitude
- 55.55914
- Longitude
- -2.14471
- Altitude
- 202 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
- 0.74 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 0.74 ha
- Footprint
- 1.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1860); Earthwork Survey (1909); Other (1935); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1964); Other (1969); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006534
- HER
- Northumberland 1417
- National record
- record NT 92 NW 31 NT92NW 112 NT92NW 113 NT92NW 114; monument 2950
- Wikidata
- Q31111408
Sources
References
- Gates, T and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-171.
- Jobey, G., 1964. Enclosed stone built settlements in North Northumberland. Archaeologia Aeliana (4th Series) 42
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 469.
- Oswald, A. 2004 An Iron Age hillfort in an evolving landscape:: analytical field survey on West Hill, Kirknewton. English Heritage. Unpublished.
- Oswald, A.Jecock, M. and Ainsworth, S., 2000. An Iron Age hillfort and its environs on West Hill, Northumberland. Survey Report (English Heritage). Unpublished report
- 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', Archaeologia Aeliana 5th series 37, 1-45