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Harelaw Burn
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4331
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4331 (4331)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilderton
- National Grid reference
- NU 0024 1960
- Latitude
- 55.47026
- Longitude
- -1.99775
- Altitude
- 212 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1927); Other (1957); Other (1970); Other (1976); Other (2003); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978-1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019933
- HER
- Northumberland 3056
- National record
- record NU 01 NW 6; monument 4941
- Wikidata
- Q31112473
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.
- Craw, J. H. 1928. 'Reports of Meetings for 1927'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 26 (1926-8), 111-34.