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Submitted by PaulH on Thursday, 13 March 2003  Page Views: 23276

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Yeavering Bell
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.12 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Northumberland Type: Hillfort
 Nearest Village: Old Yeavering
Map Ref: NT92802931  Landranger Map Number: 74
Latitude: 55.557424N  Longitude: 2.115698W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Yeavering Bell submitted by PaulH : Yeavering Bell hill fort East defences showing outworks beyond main rampart (Vote or comment on this photo)
In contrast to South Cadbury hill fort in Somerset, Yeavering Bell in Northumberland is much starker in its setting. It is the largest hill fort in Northumberland, enclosing some 5.2 hectares. Its most remarkable feature is the preservation of a stone walled rampart,4m wide in places, which encloses much of the summit.

Inside are traces of 130 hut platforms, though these were not apparent to us on the day we visited - we were more preoccupied with spotting rain squalls as they homed in on us from a previously clear sky ! Beyond the main wall enclosing all of the summit are additional defensive stone outworks on the east and west sides.

Like South Cadbury, Yeavering Bell was reoccupied after the Roman withdrawal for a time. Occupation then shifted to the site of Ad Gefrin at its base, which is mentioned in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Ad Gefrin itself has a long history, beginning with a neolithic cremation cemetary. It includes Celtic field systems and an iron age enclosure. It was then the capital of an Anglian kingdom until AD670, when the site was abandoned. Aethelfrith, Edwin, Oswald and Oswy would have held court here.

For more information see http://www.gefrin.freeserve.co.uk/Yeav/YeavFramesPage.htm

Access involves a substantial climb; well worth it though for the spectacular views of the surrounding Northumberland hills.
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Yeavering Bell submitted by PaulH : Yeavering Bell hill fort View of eastern hill from west, showing ramparts enclosing hill top to north and south (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Modern-Neolithic : Looking down towards Yeavering Bell.. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yeavering Bell submitted by PaulH : Yeavering Bell hill fort Eastern rampart with two scale markers, one 1.8m, one 0.7m ! (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yeavering Bell submitted by PaulH : Yeavering Bell hill fort View of eastern rampart (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yeavering Bell submitted by TimPrevett : A display in Wooler Tourist Information Centre. Artwork Copyright Eric Dale; disregard my copyright watermark in this image. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : And that's a complete circuit.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Later in the morning of 2018's winter solstice. Some snow persists.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : A good spread of stones there, I wonder how high and wide the wall was originally.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : The west end.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Some of these wall stones look like they are where they're supposed to be.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Hut circle up against the south wall.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : An entrance in the south wall, not sure if it's original though.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Yeavering Bell's southern wall.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Grey, cold and windy, but no rain.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by Postman : Part of the eastern entrance

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SolarMegalith : Fortifications in the southern part of the Yeavering Bell hillfort - view from the west (photo taken on July 2017).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of the wall in the northern part of the hillfort (photo taken on July 2017).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of stone wall of one of the most significant Iron Age hillforts in Northumberland (photo taken on July 2017).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of the wall in the southern part of the Yeavering Bell hillfort and view towards Easter Tor (photo taken on July 2017).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SolarMegalith : Yeavering Bell seen from the west (photo taken on July 2017).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SumDoood : The easterly entrance through the rampart.

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SumDoood : Looking NW from Yeavering Bell's western half you see a stretch of the hillfort's wall in the foreground, and below the arrow what is shown as "fort and settlement" on St Gregory's Hill. The triangles indicate what I think are large field clearance cairns - I guess they are far from modern. (I walked past another very large one at 55.560022, -2.136354).

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Yeavering Bell submitted by SumDoood : As I walked south up the valley from Kirknewton following the not wonderfully well signposted Hillfort Trail, I'd noticed several rocks which I thought might once have been guidestones. Then I saw this one which seems very clearly to indicate the best, or preferred, point at which to start crossing the valley without losing or gaining too much height and arrive in the pass / narrow east-west valle...

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Yeavering Bell submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of Yeavering Bell and nearby forts, from Berwick Naturalists via archive.com

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 1.1km N 10° Battle Stone (Kirknewton)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NT92993038)
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LiDAR of Yeavering Bell Iron Age Hillfort by Andy B on Friday, 12 May 2017
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#LiDAR of #Yeavering Bell Iron Age #hillfort, #Northumerland. Largest hillfort in #Cheviot Hills & includes 125 hut circles in 13 acre site pic.twitter.com/vmPh4gbp4F

— Mark Walters (@MarkWalters_) May 6, 2017


https://twitter.com/MarkWalters_/status/860649261150724096
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Publications from the Gefrin Trust by Andy B on Friday, 12 May 2017
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Occupation and Industrial Features in the Henge Monument at Yeavering

Brian Hope-Taylor’s Excavations on Yeavering Bell

Rediscovering the Landscape of the Northumbrian Kings

Yeavering: an Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria.

and more at
http://www.gefrintrust.org/publications.htm
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Wringing the Bell – Yeavering Bell Explored by Andy B on Monday, 28 September 2015
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Wringing the Bell (groan!) – Yeavering Bell Explored
Prof. Howard M. R. Williams writes:

At the research workshop on new research at Ad Gefrin/Yeavering, many of the experts present proclaimed, from different perspectives, that you cannot understand Ad Gefrin without understanding the hill-fort of Yeavering Bell. Ad Gefrin, it was said, is ‘in the shadow’ of Yeavering Bell. This was no empty metaphor: during a large portion of the year, the Ad Gefrin site is in the shadow of the hill over which the low winter sun cannot project. Frosts stay longest at the Ad Gefrin site than in surrounding fields I was told.

And indeed, to observe Ad Gefrin and understand its situation I was told that one cannot do better than to ascend Yeavering Bell. Many of those there told me they had made out possible crop-marks from the perspective offered by the hill upon which the fort is situated.

Yeavering Bell is the only ‘true’ hill-fort in the Cheviots although it must be said that almost every hill along the northern edge of the Cheviots has a smaller fortification of presumed (if not proven) late prehistoric date upon it. Aerial photograph has shown how this is simply a surviving dimension of a wider settlement pattern; in lower areas similar fortified sites have been obliterated by medieval and post-medieval agriculture. Despite this advance in knowledge, Yeavering Bell still stands out in terms of the prominence of the hill itself and the size of the defences and the number of house-platforms identified within it.

Read more at
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/wringing-the-bell-yeavering-bell-explored/
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Re: Yeavering Bell by Martin_L on Thursday, 29 March 2012
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The database currently contains another nearby site (type set as "stone circle") with the same name: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1370.
As a result hillfort photos get displayed at the "stone circle" page. Someone familiar with the area please have a look and rename the site pages as necessary.
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    Re: Yeavering Bell by Andy B on Thursday, 29 March 2012
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    Fixed - the 'story' of Yeavering Bell (alleged) stone circle is quite interesting - definitely worth someone going up to have a look....
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Re: Yeavering Bell by Anonymous on Saturday, 14 February 2004
Condition: in good condition considering age! wall easily recognisable, shape of some houses could be seen. Very photogenic
Ambience: mystical, inspiring
Access: even the long less steep way up was hard! well signposted and good views from every point
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