Castle Knowe, Northumberland Explained

Castle Knowe
Alternate Name:Clinch Castle
Map Type:Northumberland
Map Size:200
Coordinates:55.4258°N -1.9519°W
Gbgridref:NU 031 147
Designation1:Scheduled monument
Designation1 Number:1016542
Designation1 Date:6 September 1934

Castle Knowe, also known as Clinch Castle, is the site of an Iron Age hillfort in Northumberland, England, about 1 mile south-east of the village of Ingram. It is a scheduled monument.

Description

The fort is in the Cheviot Hills, where there are other Iron Age sites including those at Old Fawden Hill and Chubden Hill, visible from Castle Knowe to the south-west.

The hill has steep slopes to the west and north, less steep to the east and south. The fort on the summit measures about west to east and north to south; there are three roughly concentric ramparts on the slopes of the hill, of which the outer rampart and middle ramparts merge on the west side. The fort's outer rampart is the most substantial. There is an original entrance on the east side, where the rampart's ends are slightly inturned.

There are remains of seven or more roundhouses within the fort, of diameter 3.8to; there is some overlapping, indicating that there was more than one phase of occupation.