HareHaugh Hillfort

Nearest town:
Alnwick (25km ENE)
OS reference:
NY969998
OS sheet:
81
Latitude:
55° 17' 31.73 N
Longitude:
2° 2' 55.76 W
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juamei Mar 25, 2018

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HareHaugh Hillfort

Volunteers shore up crumbling ramparts of landmark Northumberland hillfort

moss
moss Jun 7, 2015

Volunteers from Northumberland National Park have seen the culmination of many years of work as major conservation started this week to repair the crumbling ramparts of Harehaugh Hillfort in Coquetdale.

Harehaugh Hillfort was built by Iron Age people 2,500 years ago and the essential conservation work now underway will see the hillfort finally removed from the Heritage at Risk register.
he work to save the hillfort is a direct result of more than 20 years of research, excavation and monitoring by archaeologists from Newcastle University that has been funded by Northumberland National Park Authority, Historic England and Natural England.

National Park volunteers and staff have been helping to fill 2,000 sandbags with organic topsoil to restore the profile of the badly-eroded sections of rampart.

A layer of wire mesh will be laid over and across the sandbags and buried beneath a fresh layer of soil and organic grass seed to discourage burrowing animals from returning.

The repair work will utilise 60 tonnes of organic soil and the number of hessian sandbags used equals approximately one sandbag for each year of the hillfort’s life.

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northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/volunteers-shore-up-crumbling-ramparts-of-landmark-northumberland-hillfort-1-7296165

Miscellaneous

HareHaugh Hillfort
Hillfort
Hob
Hob Nov 16, 2004

A neolithic long cairn has recently been identified a few hundred metres to the south of the hillfort. This cairn may have played a role in the decision to place the stones of the nearby Five Kings alignment in their position overlooking Hareheugh hill.

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