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Lowick High Stead
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN1866
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1866 (1866)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lowick
- National Grid reference
- NU 0124 3877
- Latitude
- 55.64252
- Longitude
- -1.98185
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3694 (second identifier 60301 (Canmore))
- National record
- record NU 03 NW 20; monument 6157
- Wikidata
- Q31111531
Sources
References
- Clack P.A.G. and Gosling P.F. 1975, Archaeology in the North. Report of the Northern Archaeological Survey, 92
- Gates, T. 1979 CBA Group III Bull, Ser 2 No 7 Apr 1979 20
- Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. 2012. Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland. Till-Tweed studies, Vol 2. Oxbow