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Whinny Knowe
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2801
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2801 (2801)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chatton
- National Grid reference
- NU 0746 2808
- Latitude
- 55.54641
- Longitude
- -1.88332
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1858); Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3400
- National record
- record NU 02 NE 12; monument 5470
- Wikidata
- Q31111979
Sources
References
- MacLauchlan, H. 1858. Memoir written during a survey of the Roman wall, through the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, in the years 1852-1854. Made by direction of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 34