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Heiferlaw
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN1981
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1981 (1981)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denwick
- National Grid reference
- NU 18044 17688
- Latitude
- 55.45275
- Longitude
- -1.71625
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Other (1932); Other (1956); Other (1966); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014080
- HER
- Northumberland 4421
- National record
- record NU 11 NE 12; monument 6882
- Wikidata
- Q31111770
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 126.
- MacLauchlan, H., 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 15.
- Tate, G., 1866. The History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick, Volume 1 (Alnwick), 7-8.
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43