(NU 08752199) Camp. (1)

Type D earthwork (ie fort consisting only of a mount with encircling ditch). Blawearie is in good preservation and occupies the top of a natural mound which has been levelled. A slight rampart encircles the top. On the north and west is a wide ditch, with a small ditch on the inner side at the foot of the mound and a rampart beyond it. The ditch stops at the edge of the declivity on the south-west and runs out to nothing on the north-east. The entrance has been on the north where there is an additional rampart and ditch. (2)

Situated on the summit of a shoulder of land overlooking Harehope Burn, this earthwork utilises the strong natural defences on the north, east and south-east side. On these sides the naturally steep slopes have been scarped to make them even more formidable. The naturally weaker west side is defended by two banks, not truly concentric but forming a large outer annex. The outer bank on the west side has a maximum height of 1m internally and 2.5m externally. The ditch to this varies in depth from 0.6m to 3m. The bank is continued around the remaining sides of the earthwork as scarping of the natural slopes, but the ditch fades away into the slope.
The inner bank on the west side has a maximum height of 1.5m internally and 4.5m externally. It continues as scarping on the remaining sides, giving it a maximum height of approx 10m. Only on the weaker, west side is there a ditch, with an average depth of 0.6m. There are many stones in both outer and inner ramparts. The entrance to the earthwork is on the north-west side. The banks of the outer rampart curve outwards across the ends of the ditch, but the entrance in the inner bank is of the simple type. The north side of the entrance in both inner and outer banks is marked by large stones.
The enclosed area is bracken-covered with no traces of internal habitation. The nearest water supply is Harehope Burn to the east.
The earthwork is defensive in character and probably native in origin. (3)

Listed as pre-Roman Iron Age multivallate (forts, settlements and enclosures). (4)

The work is well-preserved and its strength is of fort proportions. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (5)

NU 088 220. Blawearie. Listed in gazetteer of British hillforts as a multivallate structure enclosing 0.16ha.
An Iron Age multivallate hillfort (Blawearie Fort) is visible as an earthwork on air photographs. The irregular, curvilinear fort, at NU 0875 2199, consists of an inner and outer rampart separated by a berm 7m-20m wide. The ramparts are not concentric. The inner rampart is formed by a single wide bank, flanked to the west by an external ditch. The outer bank is narrower and does not form a complete circuit; the northern side is naturally defensive. Again there is an external ditch on the western and south-western sides. The entrance to the fort appears to be in the north-west. At its maximum dimensions the hillfort measures 114m NW-SE by 92m NE-SW and the inner rampart enclosed an area of 0.15ha. (6)

NU 082 225(sic). Bewick Hill Moor camp, Old Bewick. Scheduled No ND/87B. (7a)

An Iron Age multivallate hillfort (Blawearie Fort) is visible as an earthwork on air photographs. The irregular, curvilinear fort, at NU 0875 2199, consists of an inner and outer rampart separated by a berm 7m-20m wide. The ramparts are not concentric. The inner rampart is formed by a single wide bank, flanked to the west by an external ditch. The outer bank is narrower and does not form a complete circuit; the northern side is naturally defensive. Again there is an external ditch on the western and south-western sides. The entrance to the fort appears to be in the north-west. At its maximum dimensions the hillfort measures 114m NW-SE by 92m NE-SW and the inner rampart enclosed an area of 0.15ha. (5a)