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Slate Hill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4372
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4372 (4372)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Belsay
- National Grid reference
- NZ 07752 82166
- Latitude
- 55.13383
- Longitude
- -1.87995
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1963); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921-1922)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1011834
- HER
- Northumberland 10578
- National record
- record NZ 08 SE 13; monument 21053
- Wikidata
- Q31112514
Sources
References
- Ball, T. 1921-22. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (3rd Series) 10, 248-50
- Davis, J. and Davidson J. 1990. A Survey of Bolam and Shaftoe Area, Northumberland. Northern Arch. 9 1988-9 (1990) 57-96
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland, Archaeol Aeliana, 4th series, 62. No. 65