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Trickley Hill Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2026
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2026 (2026)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lilburn
- National Grid reference
- NU 0258 2663
- Latitude
- 55.53343
- Longitude
- -1.96067
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Scheduled (1935); Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006533
- HER
- Northumberland 3285
- National record
- record NU 02 NW 8; monument 5572
- Wikidata
- Q31111816
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 124.
- MacLauchlan 1864. Memoir to the Survey of the Eastern Branch of Watling Street, 31 note