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Chester's Hill camps is a Scheduled Ancient Monument comprising two Iron Age hillforts located near Hexham in Northumberland. The sites are positioned on elevated terrain that would have commanded views across the surrounding landscape, typical of defensive settlements from the Iron Age period. The camps consist of earthwork remains including ditches and ramparts that define the enclosed areas, though the precise chronology and sequence of occupation require further archaeological investigation. These monuments form part of the wider pattern of hillforts distributed across northern England during the pre-Roman Iron Age.
Chester's Hill camps is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006513. View the official record →
Chester's Hill camps is a Scheduled Ancient Monument comprising two Iron Age hillforts located near Hexham in Northumberland.
Chester's Hill camps 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 1006513.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Sandyford Moor cairn cemetery (7.9 km), Rock art on Amersidelaw, 290m north west of Drakestruther Moss (8 km), Round cairn cemetery, 820m south west of Stell Plantation (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Chester's Hill camps'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.
Chester's Hill camps stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is dolerite and tholeiitic basalt.