Enclosures on Meggrim's Knowe

Map showing the Scheduled Monument area of Meggrim's Knowe enclosure, with Linhope and the site of Greaves Ash, to the north.

Meggrim's Knowe, located south of Linhope in Northumberland, has the earthwork remains of a settlement of Iron Age and Romano-British occupation. It is situated on the south banks of the River Breamish on a site which is not particularly good defensively, except on it's north side. Close by, about ¼ mile to the north, was the large settlement of Greaves Ash, which was more defensible. Meggrim's Knowe includes the remains of embanked enclosures and hut circles, illustrative of the transition from prehistoric to Romano-British settlement patterns. It is a Scheduled Monument (legally protected). There are fords across the rivers here. This gives weight to the possibility that the settlement at Meggrim’s Knowe was closely associated with that at Greaves Ash.