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Dun Torvaig, a dun with outworks on a rocky knoll.
The dun, oval on plan measures externally 28.0m NW-SE by 18.0m transversely. The wall is 4.1m thick at the N side of the entrance which is in the W and is 1.4m wide. Except at the entrance the inner wall face is not evident, but the outer face can be traced for most of the periphery. Within the wall is a stabilising face which can also be traced for most of the periphery. Of two circular structures planned RCAHMS in the interior, the more westerly appears to be a ruinous recent structure, and the other is an amorphous scatter of stones with no structural details apparent, but possible fortuitous tumble.
The approach from the W has been blocked by two curving close-set walls of indeterminate thickness whose outer faces are well defined by blocks on edge. An entrance 1.2m wide in the SW is well defined by similar blocks.
Immediately outside the outwork in the N is a level platform, about 7.0m in diameter which although probably natural, would make an excellent hut stance.
Surveyed at 1/500.
RCAHMS 1928; Visited by OS (I S S) 11 October 1971.

Describes Cist found in 1921.

“In August, 1921, a cist was excavated by Mr. Bosanquet and his son in the parish of Rock. The site is the plantation known as Heiferlaw Plantation on the old edition (Sheet 27, S.W.), and Ellsnook Wood on the new edition (Sheet 29, N.W.). In the cist was found a beaker. The cist was in the top of a mound, and it is thought that it is not the primary interment. The
mound is certainly partly artificial. Excavations are to be resumed this summer. (Mr. R. C. Bosanquet, Rock Moor, Alnwick).”

George Tate’s dig report – Vol 4, History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, 1857.

‘Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling street,’ describing the site in 1864.

Information board showing access routes and giving an overview of this site.
Also a leaflet at
northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/yeaveringbell-infoleaflet.pdf

Write up of the original dig with the plates in Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland – Vol 1

Another page mentions the Roman reuse of the barrow.

Wildflower Walk at Harrop.

BRAC details for the wall site with lots of photos.

Iron age enclosure with the remains of a round house inside.

A circular iron age enclosure around 50m in diameter 200m west of the A1 near warenford.

This site lies 200m west of the coastal path, just south of the Howick encampment site, head inland just before the burn south of the encampment.

Very clear on Google Earth this is a circular enclosure around 60m in diameter.

Hidden in trees just off the A1 above Charlton Burn this site has the remains of an Iron Age enclosure.

KTTP Entry for lost Bronze Age cairn

KTTP Entry for Titlington Settlement

KTTP Entry for Ros Castle Hillfort

Bronze Age Cists & Cairn

Keys to the past entry states:

“Two stone-lined graves were found here in 1934 when building a small hut. They were on the edge of a mound made of water-worn boulders, pebbles and sand. Both the graves contained bones. A Bronze Age pot was also found in one of them.”

Partially destroyed bronze age barrow. The site lies in farmland about 300m south of Bamburgh castle car park, on the east side of the coast road.

Description from keys to the past

“Large irregular mound (55m by 90m) which survives, in places, up to 3m high. The remains of a stone-lined grave were found just to the south of the top of the mound. It contained the remains of a man, 1.7m in height. Earlier, in the 19th century, a pottery vessel had been found in the mound. These remains probably belong to the Bronze Age. ”