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Huckhoe
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN1982
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1982 (1982)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Belsay
- National Grid reference
- NZ 07292 82819
- Latitude
- 55.13970
- Longitude
- -1.88714
- Altitude
- 157 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Other (1968); Other (1995); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Excavation (1955-1957)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011838
- HER
- Northumberland 10579
- National record
- record NZ 08 SE 14; monument 21056
- Wikidata
- Q31111774
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1959. Excavations At The Native Settlement At Huckhoe. Archaeol Aeliana 4 ser 37, 217-78
- Jobey, G. 1968. A Radiocarbon Date For The Palisaded Settlement At Huckhoe. Archaeol Aeliana 4 ser 46,
- Thomas, C . 1959. Wheel Made Post-Roman Sherd. Archaeol Aeliana 4 ser 37, 258-61