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High Knowes A
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4342
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4342 (4342)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alnham
- National Grid reference
- NT 9707 1244
- Latitude
- 55.40592
- Longitude
- -2.04782
- Altitude
- 366 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); 1st Identified Written Reference (1966); Other (1969); Other (1987); Other (1988); Excavation (1962-1963)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1020254
- HER
- Northumberland 1340
- National record
- record NT 91 SE 11; monument 2272
- Wikidata
- Q31112493
Sources
References
- Jobey, G and Tait, J 1966 Excavations on palisaded settlements and cairnfields at Alnham, Northumberland Archaeol Aeliana 4th series, 44, 5-48.
- 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. https://www.academia.edu/17310729/_2008_The_South_East_Cheviots_Project_a_descriptive_account_of_the_prehistoric_landscape. Accessed May 2016