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Old Rothbury
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0590
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0590 (590)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rothbury
- National Grid reference
- NU 04615 01980
- Latitude
- 55.31191
- Longitude
- -1.92883
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1934); Other (1957); Other (1972); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011616
- HER
- Northumberland 2839
- National record
- record NU 00 SW 25; monument 4718
- Wikidata
- Q31111540
Sources
References
- Hedley, R.C. 1989: The Pre-Historic Camps of Northumberland. Old Rothbury Camp. Archaeol Aeliana 13, 230-3
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 60.
- MacLauchlan, H., 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (Alnwick), 82