Iron Age camp 540m ESE of Ilderton (Cheviotside)
[Centred NU 02442169] Camp. Urns found. (1)
'A round encampment, enclosed by a stone rampart and ditch, yet [1734] very visible and distinct, called the Ringle, where the inhabitants sometimes find pieces of broken spears and other armour.'
Sir David W Smith whose collection of maps and plans of Northumbrian camps is at Alnwick Castle, says 'It is much in decay, but appear to have been octangular; the area within is about 60 yards diameter, the ditch is about 7 yards wide, with a rampart running from it, and the main agger within the ditch has been wide, gradually diminishing by small platforms towards its centre. There are the remains of an oblong outer work at the north-east part of the camp, to which it adjoins, and from the place of contact vestiges of a road or hollow-way towards the north'. It is nearly obliterated by the plough.
'From the remains of its outline', says MacLauchlan 'we may conjecture that it was nearly circular, and had two ramparts, the diameter of the interior one being about 70 yards'.
Two urns were ploughed up on Roseden Edge about 1835. The smaller is 3ins high, 3-3/4ins across the mouth, 1ins in girth, with a finely formed beading dividing it into equal sections. The ornament is lozenge-shaped. The urn is broken. The larger urn is crudely made, and measures 5-1/2ins in height, 6ins over the brim, 19ins in girth, 10ins in circumference at the base. Part of the ornament is of half a lozenge pattern. A piece is missing on one side. (2)
Urn [not typed] 2-7/8ins high, from Roseden; now in Greenwell Collection. Listed as article no 286. (3)
Large urn [Type 2A] now in British Museum. The smaller urn was found with an unburnt body. (4)
Area centred NU 02432169. Remains of a circular earthwork upon the north end of a high ridge of pastureland. Interior diameter 65m. The earthwork apparently originally consisted of double ramparts with a medial ditch, but the inner rampart is now almost ploughed out and is approx 6m-8m wide, with a maximum height of 0.1m, while there are no traces of the outer rampart. No traces could be found of the outer work to the north-east, referred to in (2), and no evidence of
internal occupation. No dating evidence. The nearest water supply is stream 500m west.
No further information was obtained about the urns found. (5)
Listed as pre-Roman Iron Age multivallate [forts, settlements and enclosures]. (6)
Now virtually ploughed out, and traceable only as two concentric ground swellings (published survey 25inch revised). The site, though elevated, is not defensive, but Jobey's Iron Age classification is reasonable on the basis of previous descriptions of the work, which do not suggest a sepulchral monument; and Hardy, himself, does not say that the urns were found within the enclosure. (7)
Two food vessels. i) bowl, 77mm high, 95mm rim diameter, 40mm base diameter; lost. ii) tripartite vase, c140mm high, 153mm rim diameter; lost. (8)
Additional Reference (9)
'A round encampment, enclosed by a stone rampart and ditch, yet [1734] very visible and distinct, called the Ringle, where the inhabitants sometimes find pieces of broken spears and other armour.'
Sir David W Smith whose collection of maps and plans of Northumbrian camps is at Alnwick Castle, says 'It is much in decay, but appear to have been octangular; the area within is about 60 yards diameter, the ditch is about 7 yards wide, with a rampart running from it, and the main agger within the ditch has been wide, gradually diminishing by small platforms towards its centre. There are the remains of an oblong outer work at the north-east part of the camp, to which it adjoins, and from the place of contact vestiges of a road or hollow-way towards the north'. It is nearly obliterated by the plough.
'From the remains of its outline', says MacLauchlan 'we may conjecture that it was nearly circular, and had two ramparts, the diameter of the interior one being about 70 yards'.
Two urns were ploughed up on Roseden Edge about 1835. The smaller is 3ins high, 3-3/4ins across the mouth, 1ins in girth, with a finely formed beading dividing it into equal sections. The ornament is lozenge-shaped. The urn is broken. The larger urn is crudely made, and measures 5-1/2ins in height, 6ins over the brim, 19ins in girth, 10ins in circumference at the base. Part of the ornament is of half a lozenge pattern. A piece is missing on one side. (2)
Urn [not typed] 2-7/8ins high, from Roseden; now in Greenwell Collection. Listed as article no 286. (3)
Large urn [Type 2A] now in British Museum. The smaller urn was found with an unburnt body. (4)
Area centred NU 02432169. Remains of a circular earthwork upon the north end of a high ridge of pastureland. Interior diameter 65m. The earthwork apparently originally consisted of double ramparts with a medial ditch, but the inner rampart is now almost ploughed out and is approx 6m-8m wide, with a maximum height of 0.1m, while there are no traces of the outer rampart. No traces could be found of the outer work to the north-east, referred to in (2), and no evidence of
internal occupation. No dating evidence. The nearest water supply is stream 500m west.
No further information was obtained about the urns found. (5)
Listed as pre-Roman Iron Age multivallate [forts, settlements and enclosures]. (6)
Now virtually ploughed out, and traceable only as two concentric ground swellings (published survey 25inch revised). The site, though elevated, is not defensive, but Jobey's Iron Age classification is reasonable on the basis of previous descriptions of the work, which do not suggest a sepulchral monument; and Hardy, himself, does not say that the urns were found within the enclosure. (7)
Two food vessels. i) bowl, 77mm high, 95mm rim diameter, 40mm base diameter; lost. ii) tripartite vase, c140mm high, 153mm rim diameter; lost. (8)
Additional Reference (9)
N3500
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; A S Phillips
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1969; R W Emsley
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1969; R W Emsley
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
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