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Warden Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0593
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0593 (593)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Warden
- National Grid reference
- NY 90423 67863
- Latitude
- 55.00526
- Longitude
- -2.15126
- Altitude
- 181 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 1.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1825); Other (1932); Other (1966); Geophysical Survey (1994); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011421
- HER
- Northumberland 8558
- National record
- record NY 96 NW 17; monument 18338
- Wikidata
- Q31111577
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 141
- MacKenzie, E., 1825. History of Northumberland 2 (Newcastle), 260
- MacLauchlan, H. 1858. Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall, through the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, in the years 1852-1854. 34
- Swaddle P. Warden Hillfort, A Geophysical Survey and Small Scale Study of Warden Hillfort and the Immediate Surrounding Area. Unpublished.