Crag.
Image credit: A. Brookes (18.10.2022)
Images
Strong winds and blown sand.
Image credit: A. Brookes (21.10.2021)
Evening light, Bamburgh.
Image credit: A. Brookes (6.5.2019)
Low tide.
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2019)
The landward side is protected by a sheer crag of dolerite.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.4.2019)
The defensive position is impressive, even without the medieval walls.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.4.2019)
Looking over the dunes on the northern flank.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.4.2019)
The dunes separating the castle from the sea have a pleasing bank and ditch quality to them.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.4.2019)
The site rises above its surroundings. Seen from Harkess Rocks to the northwest.
Image credit: A. Brookes (9.4.2019)
Bamburgh Castle rises prominent above Holy Island Sands, seen from the Lindisfarne causeway.
Image credit: A. Brookes (10.4.2019)
Image credit: Mike Purslow
Image credit: Mike Purslow
Image credit: Mike Purslow
Image credit: Mike Purslow
Image credit: Mike Purslow
Image Credit: Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.
Image credit: Open Source Environment Agency LIDAR
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Image credit: Chris Bickerton
Sites within 20km of Bamburgh Castle
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Bamburgh Barrow
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Spindlestone Heughs
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Kippy Heugh
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Benthall Cairn (Beadnell)
photo 5 link 1 -
Isabella’s Mount
link 1 -
Lindisfarne
photo 5 forum 2 description 1 -
Lucker Moor
photo 3 -
Lyham Moor
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Wandylaw
photo 7 -
Dunstan Hill
photo 3 description 1 link 1 -
Whitehill Head
photo 2 description 1 -
The Bowden Doors
photo 7 description 2 link 2 -
Whinny Hill
photo 14 description 1 link 1 -
Charlton Burn
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Kettley Crag – lower outcrop
photo 1 -
Kettley Crag
photo 55 forum 2 description 5 link 4 -
Chatton
photo 106 forum 2 description 6 link 5 -
Kettley Stone
photo 10 forum 1 description 3 link 1 -
St Cuthbert’s Cave (Cockenheugh)
photo 11 description 1 -
Chatton Camp
photo 15 description 1 -
Millstone Hill
photo 2 description 1 link 2 -
East Linkhall
description 1 -
Ox Eye
photo 3 description 1 -
Amerside Law north
photo 4 description 2 -
Amerside Law
photo 10 forum 2 description 3 link 4 -
Cateran Hill
photo 6 description 5 link 1 -
Kyloe Camp
description 1 -
Hazelrigg
description 1 link 1 -
Ros Castle
photo 21 description 4 link 1 -
Crag Hill
photo 7 description 1 link 1 -
Hepburn Crags Camp
photo 10 description 1 -
Dunstanburgh Castle
photo 16 description 1 -
Scrog Hill
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Hepburn Moor
photo 5 -
Berthele’s Stone
photo 2 forum 1 description 1 -
Honey Hill
photo 4 description 1 link 1 -
Ellsnook
photo 4 description 1 link 2 -
Blawearie Cairn
photo 48 description 5 link 1 -
West Horton
photo 9 link 1 -
Tick Law
photo 8 description 1 -
The Ringses
photo 37 description 2 link 1 -
Doddington North Moor
photo 3 description 1 -
Craster Heugh
photo 4 description 2 link 1 -
Old Bewick
photo 85 forum 1 description 10 link 3 -
Weetwood 8
photo 3 link 2 -
Hare Law Crags
photo 13 description 2 link 1 -
Buttony
photo 39 forum 2 description 2 link 2 -
Clavering
photo 2 -
The Ringses Hillfort
photo 2 -
Fowberry Mains
photo 20 description 1 link 2 -
Harehope Hill
photo 1 description 2 -
Heifer Law
photo 6 forum 1 description 2 link 1 -
Doddington Stone Circle
photo 24 forum 1 description 5 -
Old Bewick Hillfort
photo 26 description 2 link 1 -
White House Folly Hill
photo 18 forum 1 description 2 link 4 -
Old Bewick Cairn
photo 8 -
Weetwood Moor
photo 76 forum 3 description 6 link 4 -
Newtown Mill
photo 12 description 4 -
Hurl Stone
photo 7 description 6 -
Fowberry Moor Stone-3
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Doddington Moor Quarry Site
photo 15 description 3 -
North Plantation
photo 8 description 1 link 2 -
Fowberry Moor Farm Stone
photo 2 description 1 -
Fowberry Enclosure 3
photo 3 description 1 link 2 -
Doddington Dubious Stone
photo 2 description 1 -
Doddington Enclosure
photo 6 description 2 -
Gled Law North
photo 13 description 2 -
Gled Law
photo 27 description 2 link 2 -
Fowberry Enclosure 1&2
photo 8 description 1 link 2 -
Fowberry Cairn
photo 17 description 3 link 2 -
Whitsunbank 2
photo 14 description 2 link 1 -
Dod Law
photo 11 -
Whitsunbank 3
photo 4 description 1 link 2 -
Howick Hall
link 1 -
Dod Law Main
photo 28 description 1 link 2 -
Way to Wooler
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Dod Law Hillfort rock art
photo 20 description 2 -
Ringses Camp, Beanley Moor
photo 18 description 2 link 1 -
Whitsunbank 1
photo 6 description 1 link 1 -
Weetwood North
photo 2 description 1 -
High Chesters
photo 5 description 1 link 3 -
Bunkerhill Plantation
photo 6 description 1 -
Doddington North
photo 10 link 1 -
Cuddy’s Cave (Doddington)
photo 8 description 3 -
Chester Cottage Settlement
description 1 link 1 -
Coldmartin Loughs 1-2
photo 28 description 2 link 1 -
Hunterheugh East
photo 3 description 1 -
Hunterheugh North East
photo 6 description 1 -
Blackbog Dean
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Hunterheugh 4 and 5
photo 5 description 1 -
Hunterheugh 2 and 3
photo 12 description 1 -
Sea Houses Farm
photo 5 forum 1 description 1 -
Hunterheugh 6
photo 8 -
Beanley Plantation Settlement
photo 6 forum 1 description 1 link 1 -
Hunterheugh 1
photo 38 forum 1 description 1 link 3 -
Hunterheugh 8 and 9
photo 10 -
Harlaw Hill 2
description 1 link 1 -
Cocklawburn Beach Rings
photo 5 description 4 -
Harlaw Hill
link 1 -
Roughting Linn
photo 81 description 12 link 3 -
Howick Hillfort
photo 12 description 1 link 1