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Groat Haugh
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0584
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0584 (584)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Norham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8846 4506
- Latitude
- 55.69889
- Longitude
- -2.18516
- Altitude
- 23 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and lowland
- Aspect
- southwest, west, and northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1999); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland (second identifier 59538 (Canmore))
- National record
- record NT 84 NE 47; monument 1340336
- Wikidata
- Q31111371
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