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West Hills Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0589
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0589 (589)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rothbury
- National Grid reference
- NU 03793 02088
- Latitude
- 55.31289
- Longitude
- -1.94178
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 9
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 1.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, hillslope, and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1911); Other (1932); Other (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011291
- HER
- Northumberland 2840
- National record
- record NU 00 SW 26; monument 4723
- Wikidata
- Q31111492
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 123
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 167.
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Additional notes on Roman roads in Northumberland. 82-3