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Fawdon Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0588
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0588 (588)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Otterburn
- National Grid reference
- NY 8963 9399
- Latitude
- 55.24003
- Longitude
- -2.16462
- Altitude
- 237 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1946); Other (1957); Other (1962); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1007527
- HER
- Northumberland 8284
- National record
- record NY 89 SE 17; monument 17449
- Wikidata
- Q31111477
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1946-50. A new list of native sites in Northumberland. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 169.
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43