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Pike House Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4374
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4374 (4374)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brinkburn
- National Grid reference
- NZ 0767 9968
- Latitude
- 55.29121
- Longitude
- -1.88076
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North); In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1957); Other (1968); Other (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006477
- HER
- Northumberland 10754
- National record
- record NZ 09 NE 20; monument 21255
- Wikidata
- Q31112528
Sources
References
- Jobey, G., 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63 no. 125
- MacLauchlan, H.1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland.(London), 83.