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North Heddon Moor
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2024
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2024 (2024)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilderton
- National Grid reference
- NU 00485 23071
- Latitude
- 55.50145
- Longitude
- -1.99387
- Altitude
- 157 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1955); Other (1966); Other (1969); Other (1974); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1867)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1018067
- HER
- Northumberland 3487
- National record
- record NU 02 SW 11; monument 5880
- Wikidata
- Q31111778
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62, 124
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 43 and note.