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Wall Crags
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0592
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0592 (592)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wall
- National Grid reference
- NY 9201 6903
- Latitude
- 55.01578
- Longitude
- -2.12648
- Altitude
- 146 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and berm
- Also recorded
- guard chambers
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture 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
- Other (1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); 1st Identified Written Reference (1965); Other (1966); Other (1994); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008425
- HER
- Northumberland 8572
- National record
- record NY 96 NW 31; monument 18386
- Wikidata
- Q31111572
Sources
References
- Dougherty, E. P. 2005. E/2005/Wall Crags Defended Settlement, Wall, Northumberland: Archaeological Recording and Re-instatement. Tyne & Wear Museums Archaeology Department. Unpublished report
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 141
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43