[Centred NZ 11639041 and NZ 11749041] Camps. (1)

West Gallowshaw. An oval earthwork with single rampart enclosing approximately 3/4 acre.
East Gallowshaw. A roughly circular earthwork with single rampart enclosing approximately 1 acre. (2)

About 200 yards north of Galloshaw House are the remains of two entrenchments. The most westerly is in the shape of a pear, about 110 yards long and 65 yards wide. The other, about 40 yards away is partly obliterated.
Each camp appears to have had a rampart and ditch but the former appears to have been thrown into the ditch and the dimensions could not be ascertained. (3)

The two earthworks lie within Dixon's Wood, a fir plantation, and have not been investigated. The sites lie upon a gentle south-east slope, at approximately 390 feet above sea level, which overlooks low lying ground in the Font valley to the west, south and east. The ground rises very gently to the north-west. The nearest water supply is a spring 150m to the south-west. (4)

Both listed as pre-Roman Iron Age earthworks on slopes. These are few in number, normally circular or oval in form, univallate with an internal mound, median ditch and counterscarp bank in fairly typical fashion. They have few other distinguishing features that would assist in placing them in context, but their perimeters are such that they have a claim to tentative inclusion in the class of Iron Age works. It is conceivable that some are no more than stock enclosures. (5)

Both works have been greatly reduced by afforestation. The westerly one is the better preserved and consists of two spread banks with medial ditch, the latter some 7m wide between crests, and 1m deep. Of the other, only the ditch survives, and this for the most part is traceable only as a superficial depression. The general form and construction of the works clearly justifies their classification as Iron Age and they are similar in most respects to the 'hill slope' type of enclosure. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (6)

Two defended settlements 200m north of Gallowshaw. Scheduling affirmed on 11th March 1996, new national monument number 25178.
The monument includes the remains of two defended settlements of Iron Age date situated on the south eastern slope of Gallowshaw Hill overlooking the valley of the River Font to the west, south and east. The western settlement is roughly oval in shape and measures 78m north east to south west by 42m north west to south east, within a slight earthen bank. Surrounding the enclosure there is a ditch with an average width of 7m which is 1m deep below a counterscarp bank 0.8m high. There is known to be an entrance 3m wide through the south western side of the enclosure. The eastern settlement, situated 28m away, is roughly circular in shape and measures 64m east to west by 74m north to south within the slight remains of a rampart and a ditch varying between 8m to 10m wide. It is thought that this enclosure also originally had a counterscarp bank but this has become denuded over the years and is difficult to trace.
The defended settlements are reasonably well preserved and retain significant archaeological deposits. Defended settlements occupying hillslopes in this fashion are not common in Northumberland and these are good examples of their type. (7)

NZ 116 904. Gallowshaw camps. Scheduled No ND/563. (8a)