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Buckton Moor South camp is a prehistoric enclosure located in Northumberland, England. The site consists of an earthwork comprising a roughly circular or oval arrangement of banks and ditches that dates to the Iron Age period. The monument represents one of several fortified or nucleated settlements known from the moorland landscape of north-eastern England during the pre-Roman iron age. Such camps typically served as defensive strongholds or administrative centres for local communities, though the precise function and date range of this particular site would require specialist archaeological assessment to establish with certainty.
Buckton Moor South camp is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006511. View the official record →
Buckton Moor South camp is a prehistoric enclosure located in Northumberland, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006511.
Buckton Moor South camp is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1006511.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chatton Law camp, and cup and ring marked rocks (8.3 km), Simonside camp (9.6 km), Circular ditched enclosure W of Chatton (9.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Buckton Moor South camp's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Buckton Moor South camp stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.