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Ell's Knowe
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN1882
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1882 (1882)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknewton
- National Grid reference
- NT 87232 27796
- Latitude
- 55.54374
- Longitude
- -2.20389
- Altitude
- 319 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1969); Excavation (1978); Other (1994); Excavation (1970)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1009040
- HER
- Northumberland 639
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 75; monument 918
- Wikidata
- Q31111665
Sources
References
- Burgess, C. 1979. Excavations at Ell's Knowe, Northumberland. Univ Durham Univ Newcastle upon Tyne Archaeol Rep, vol. 8.
- Burgess, C. 1971. Reports on Excavations in 1970 Arch Newsbulletin for Northumberland, Cumberland & Westmoreland - Volume: 10, 1971, 2-3
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43