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Knock Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0977
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0977 (977)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Roddam
- National Grid reference
- NT 99216 16457
- Latitude
- 55.44202
- Longitude
- -2.01394
- Altitude
- 195 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Other (1946); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2008); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006540
- HER
- Northumberland 1292
- National record
- record NT 91 NE 39; monument 1033853
- Wikidata
- Q31111624
Sources
References
- Sainsbury I. in Topping P. Pearson, T. 2008. The South-East Cheviots Project. A descriptive account of the prehistoric landscape. English Heritage Report Series 83/2008 Published on-line http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/083_2008WEB1.pdf