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Fox Covert Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2022
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2022 (2022)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chatton
- National Grid reference
- NU 02945 32944
- Latitude
- 55.59016
- Longitude
- -1.95483
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1964); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1016246
- HER
- Northumberland 3808
- National record
- record NU 03 SW 31; monument 6349
- Wikidata
- Q31111777
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (Alnwick), 44