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Chillingham Park
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4284
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4284 (4284)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chillingham
- National Grid reference
- NU 0676 2630
- Latitude
- 55.53103
- Longitude
- -1.89403
- Altitude
- 124 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- commercial forestry and parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Other (1969); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1980); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3392
- National record
- record NU 02 NE 4; monument 5438
- Wikidata
- Q31112137
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.