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Greaves Ash Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2029
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2029 (2029)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NT 96530 16374
- Latitude
- 55.44126
- Longitude
- -2.05639
- Altitude
- 272 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and berm
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Other (1957); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006588
- HER
- Northumberland 1254
- National record
- record NT 91 NE 1; monument 1917
- Wikidata
- Q31111900
Sources
References
- Dodds, M.H. 1940. A History of Northumberland, Volume 15 (Newcastle upon Tyne), 56. 31-64
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage
- Topping, P. and Pearson, T. 1988. The South-East Cheviots Project: A Descriptive Account of the Prehistoric Landscape. Research Department Report Series no. 83-2003
- Tate, G. 1856-62. On the old Celtic town at Greaves Ash, near Linhope, Northumberland, with an account of diggings recently made into this and other ancient remains in the valley of Beamish. Berwickshire Natur. Club, iv. 292-316;