Springhill Camp

Scheduled Monument areas - based on Historic England data (Open Government Licence).

This site is located close to Spring Hill, to the south of Tweedmouth in Northumberland. It is scheduled as a Roman marching camp, but it's age and usage is unclear. An enclosure was identified here by aerial photography in the 1950s, originally interpreted as a Roman Fort and a possible Iron Age hillfort. Earlier, in 1946, a trench had been excavated in the vicinity, and what was described as an 'Antonine sherd' had been recovered. It has also been suggested as the site of a Romano-British settlement. However, trenches excavated in 2019 to evaluate the site found no trace of the camp. In several of these trenches, bedrock was close to the surface, with the bedrock in a stepped or ridged formation. As such, it was suggested there is a possibility that the features interpreted as cropmarks of a Roman camp in the 1950s may actually derive from geological or later industrial activity.^[1] The site is partially destroyed by road cutting and construction of a reservoir. It is a Scheduled Monument (legally protected).

EN2036 Springhill, Northumberland

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