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Howtel Field Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN1906
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1906 (1906)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8989 3471
- Latitude
- 55.60593
- Longitude
- -2.16202
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 1998
- National record
- record NT 93 SW 1; monument 3823
- Wikidata
- Q31111563
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 463
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 34