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Murton High Crags
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN0586
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0586 (586)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ord
- National Grid reference
- NT 9630 4950
- Latitude
- 55.73891
- Longitude
- -2.06049
- Altitude
- 83 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and lowland
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Other (1967); Excavation (1983); 1st Identified Written Reference (1987); Excavation (1979-1981); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006422
- HER
- Northumberland 2290
- National record
- record NT 94 NE 14; monument 3985
- Wikidata
- Q31111467
Sources
References
- Jobey, I. and Jobey, G. 1987. Prehistoric, Romano-British and later remains on Murton High Crags, Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana 5 ser. 15, 151-98
- Van der Veen, M. 1985. The plant remains from Murton High Crags, Northumberland. http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/4720.pdf. Accessed Nov 2015