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Submitted by Anne T on Sunday, 05 May 2019  Page Views: 2902

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Warden Hill Hillfort
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Hexham  Nearest Village: Warden
Map Ref: NY9042367863
Latitude: 55.005238N  Longitude: 2.151263W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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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4 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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Anne T visited on 1st May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Warden Hill Hillfort: Homer’s Lane is very narrow, so we struggled to park the car. We eventually ended up bumped up on the verge at the wide entrance to a farm house at NY 91187 67190, ensuring there was plenty of room for tractors, trailers and other traffic to get past. Walking back to the start of the footpath at NY 91217 67247, we used the kissing gate and walked up hill, turning left onto the well-marked path, zig-zagging through what is virtually a small village at High Warden (there are so many signposts and ‘private’ signs’ people must have become fed up with walkers). We ended up on a small woodland path leading northwards along the edge of a field towards the telecoms mast just below the summit of Warden Hill. By the mast, the track dog-legs slightly westwards, with the path running north up-hill through the centre of a field of pasture. Towards the top of the hill there is a trig point, immediately to the east of the gate into the next field. Going through the gate, there is an interesting series of low banks which are medieval/post medieval in date. Walking 10-15m further onto the hill, the outer banks of the hill fort become clear. We spent ages walking around the outside and inside of the hillfort. We’d taken the printed HE and Pastscape records with us, determined to understand all the features. We particularly looked for the Roman signal station, and identified a small, square structure where the grid reference said it should have been. From here, running eastwards, a line of stones poked up intermittently out of the grass. There are brilliant views in most directions, although the endless noise of the A69 became a little tedious.

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing almost on the north western corner of the hillfort, looking north east over the northern rampart, with the Tyne Valley in the distance. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Northumberland

Warden Hill Hillfort is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1011421 and recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 18338. This hillfort is roughly circular, measuring 85m east-west and 63m north-south, defined by up to three ramparts and ditch.

Classed as an Iron Age multivallate hillfort, it now only survives as an earthwork on the summit of Warden Hill. Parts of the hillfort have been destroyed by quarrying, and a possible Romano-British settlement overlies its north western corner. The original entrance to the west of the fort can still be clearly seen. Pastscape tells us: "The ramparts have become spread and give the impression of being terraced into the hillside; the two outer ramparts, which are 0.4m and 1.5m high, are only 1.5m apart and were originally separated by a ditch which has become obscured by the spreading ramparts. The more substantial inner rampart measures 6m across and has a maximum height of 2m. Where the matrix of the rampart is clear of turf, it is composed of large facing stones infilled with smaller stones and earth".

A small, sub-rectangular Roman signal station is known to have existed at NY 9036, 6788, at the north western end of the fort, although Pastscape Monument No. 18309 says that 'no surface traces at this, or any other, position on the hill', although the fort was only surveyed using aerial photographs in 2003.

Across the south western end of the fort are some possible Medieval/post-Medieval banks/earthworks, intersecting at NY 9052 6789. More information about these can be found on Pastscape Monument No. 1454154. There is also a relocated trig point which can be found to the east of the gateway into the field.

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Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Whilst Pastscape 18309 says there are "no surface indications" of the Roman Signal Station at NY 9036 6788, their survey was taken from aerial photographs. Using our GPS, in the centre/foreground of the photos, are the remains of a small rectangular structure with larger, square-ish stones at each corner. We thought (hoped!) this might be the remains of the signal station. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Walking onto the summit of Warden Hill, through the gateway into the field at its southern edge, next to the relocated trig point. What is visible in the foreground is a jumble of low banks which are medieval/post medieval in origin, with the low 'inner' rampart of the hillfort visible as a stony bank. It is only walking 10-15m further north into the fort that its sub-circular outer banks become ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing on part of the Medieval/post-medieval quarrying towards the north eastern corner of the fort, looking west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing just to the north of the entrance in the western bank of the fort, towards the bottom of the three ramparts visible at this point. The banks rise high above you here. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : At the north western corner of the hillfort, looking south, there is a very large boulder emerging from the top of the bank. This appears to be one of the large facing stones, the rest of the rampart having spread down slope. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing towards the middle of the western ditch, looking northwards.

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing in the middle of the hillfort, looking north east towards the heavily quarried area of the hillfort. The light brown area towards the centre of the photograph is a large area of exposed bedrock with interesting wavy weathering patterns across it. This rock seemed to be at the centre of a circular dip, surrounded by a low bank. Pastscape says there are no visible hut circles within the hi...

Warden Hill Hillfort
Warden Hill Hillfort submitted by Anne T : Standing near to the dry stone wall which dissects the southern edge of the hillfort, at its south western end, looking over the western ramparts and ditches, with the Tyne Valley in the distance. The large facing stones, infilled with earth and smaller stones, can be clearly seen at this side of the fort.

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