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Kippy Heugh
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2028
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2028 (2028)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Easington
- National Grid reference
- NU 1264 3465
- Latitude
- 55.60536
- Longitude
- -1.80083
- Altitude
- 48 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, knoll or outcrop, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1951); Other (1964); Other (1968); Other (1996); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014502
- HER
- Northumberland 5121
- National record
- record NU 13 SW 11; monument 7721
- Wikidata
- Q31111872
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A., 1951. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 153
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43