(NT 9847 1489) Camp (near the farm of 'Chesters'). (1)

A multiple rampart earthwork approximately 1 acre in area. (2)

Type H1(3). (Ancient village sites protected by walls, ramparts and ditches). (3)

A camp defended by the ramparts, the outer mutilated and fragmentary, the inner nearly circular, with a gateway or entrance on the east side. Hut-circles and rectangular dwellings are within and against the southern rampart. Excavation found 'Broken pottery', charred wood and a flint 'spear or javelin head' to the north of the gateway 'where there appears to have been a small guard chamber'; a piece of stag horn 'against the northern rampart'; the bones of a horse 'in another part of the Camp'; broken pottery and burnt wood, a quern and a green glass bead, (thought to be pre-Roman) in a hut 25' in diameter, 25' west of the inner rampart. (4)

Physical description. The principal entry, and perhaps the only original one, said to be on the south side 'so formed as to act as a traverse', with a guard-house near it. Foundations can be seen all over the interior and are visible between the two ramparts on the south and outside the work all together towards the south. The walls of the outer defence approach each other as they pass off to the westward; that to the south terminating in a spring 200 yards from the camp (to which it was perhaps a paved way), the other leading towards a projecting point of rock overlooking the Breamish. (5)

Pottery from Tate's excavation is in Alnwick Castle Museum and is identifiable as Votadinian (6-700 BC) or of kindred type. (6)

The flint 'javelin head' and other items from Tate's excavation are also with the pottery in Alnwick Museum - Case C, tray 28a. (7)

The remains are very mutilated and robbed, See sketch survey of inner work and associated features. (8)

Listed under pre-Roman Iron Age, univallate (forts, settlements and enclosures) with an overlying settlement of round stone huts. (9)

The whole work is severely mutilated, but the inner rampart is of Iron Age character, while the hut circles (though only one can be identified with certainty), and possibly the interior dividing banks, show secondary Romano-British occupations. No original entrance is identifiable. The rectangular features on the outer south perimeter of the inner bank are probably medieval (or later) house steadings, and the outer bank (which opens out on the west side into a comparatively modern field system) and other features between the two banks are probably related to them. Surveyed at 1:2500. (10)

Prendwick Chesters hillfort (NT 985149). Photographed from the air in 1978. (11)

NT 985 149. Prickly Knowe enclosures, NW of Chesters. Scheduled No ND/186. (12a)

The settlement and its environs were surveyed at 1:2500 during the RCHME: SE Cheviots Project. The ramparts and interior of this hillfort have been much disturbed by later activity, including the 19th-century excavations (Authority 4), making the surface remains difficult to interpret. The remains of up to 7 hut circles can be seen, however, as well as other structural features. A detailed account is contained within the Project archive. (The medieval farmstead is now recorded separately [NT 9814/2]). (12b)