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Cornhill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4137
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4137 (4137)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cornhill-on-Tweed
- National Grid reference
- NT 8597 4020
- Latitude
- 55.65521
- Longitude
- -2.22448
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.38 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.38 ha, 0.18 ha, 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1970); Other (1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006409
- HER
- Northumberland 982
- National record
- record NT 84 SE 41; monument 1401
- Wikidata
- Q31112441
Sources
References
- Gates, T. and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-71.