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Howick Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0580
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0580 (580)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Longhoughton
- National Grid reference
- NU 25567 16307
- Latitude
- 55.44001
- Longitude
- -1.59743
- Altitude
- 22 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (East); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop, lowland, and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); 1st Identified Written Reference (1965); Other (1968); Other (1969); Geophysical Survey (2002); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014056
- HER
- Northumberland 5669
- National record
- record NU 21 NE 3; monument 8094
- Wikidata
- Q31111426
Sources
References
- Biggins, J A, Waddington, C and Johnson, B 30/07/2002 A Geophysical Survey of an Iron Age Defended Settlement at Howick Haven, Northumberland, July 2002. Unpublished
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62; 126
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63 no. 113