NY 92006904 At Wall Crags is a fort situated on the edge of an escarpment. It comprises two ramparts on the south and east, and a single one, on the edge of the escarpment, on the west. The entrance, 4m wide, is in the north-west segment and is flanked on the west side, within the earthwork, by a small enclosure in the form of a platform, c.7m square. The interior contains six hut circles, but possibly more existed as the whole area has been extensively surface quarried. Only one hut is well defined, being 13m in diameter, and bounded by a slight earth and stone bank. The others, marked only by courses of stones, vary in diameter from 6m to 13m. The ramparts (c.6m broad and 1m maximum height) have been badly mutilated, especially on the south and west. 30m to the north-west of the entrance is a fine spring. Surveyed at 1/2500. (1)

[NY 920690] Fort [L.B]. (2)

Condition unchanged. Published survey (25 inch) correct. (3)

'Wall Hill ? NY 922691'. (Presumably the Wall Crags site - NY 920690) listed by Jobey as a Iron Age univallate earthwork - hillfort? with later or over-lying settlement of round stone huts. Listed under 'Hill Forts' by Challis and Harding. (4)(5)

School Hill, Wall, ?defended settlement and later stone huts. Four or five hut foundations visible, probably part of later Romano-British settlement overlying earlier defensive site. (6)

NY 9201 6903. Defended settlement on Wall Crags. Scheduled RSM No 25041. A roughly oval enclosure 70m NE-SW by 50m NW-SE lies within two stone ramparts on the NE, E and S sides and a single rampart on the W and NW sides, where steep natural defence is provided by the escarpment edge. The ramparts average 6m wide and 1m high and are clearly visible despite some levelling, especially on the S and W sides. Where the enclosure is surrounded by double ramparts they are separated by a berm up to 6m wide. A well preserved entrance and hollow way 4m wide is placed centrally on the NW side. Immediately to the right of the entrance within the interior there is a small enclosure 7m square which may be the remains of a building associated with the entrance. Within the enclosure there are the remains of at least six circular houses; one is centrally placed and very well defined, with a diameter of 13m, whilst the others are less well defined and range from 6m to 13m in diameter. These houses may represent a secondary occupation of the settlement. Two modern dry stone walls cross the enclosure from N-S and E-W. (7)

In 2005 a small area of the settlement was excavated to establish the profile and construction techniques of the rampart ahead of reinstating the rampart. A portion of rampart had been damaged during refurbishment work to overhead power cables. During the excavation a sherd of Black-burnished ware pottery was discovered. Although in a disturbed context it has been suggested that this may be evidence of activity on the site into the period when the Hadrian's Wall frontier was constructed. (8)

NY 922 691. Wall Hill. Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 0.24ha. (9a)

The hillfort was seen as an earthwork and mapped from air photographs. It is as described by authority 7. (9b-c)

Located on the English Heritage map of Hadrian's Wall 2010. (9d)