EN0586 Murton High Crags, Northumberland

  • Description

    The cropmarks of a multi-phased enclosure lying 500m to the SE of Longridge Towers, identified on an RAF aerial photograph taken in 1961. A lowland site, it lies on the crest of a hill at 83m OD. Excavations revealed two concentric lines of palisades which encircled the summit of the hill (Jobey and Jobey 1987). They were later succeeded by three, possibly four phases of earthen ramparts....
  • Owner

    Atlas of Hillforts
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/EN0586.html
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
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