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Maiden Castle
County Durham, England ยท Atlas EN0115
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0115 (115)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- County Durham
- Historic county
- County Durham
- Parish, community, or townland
- Durham
- National Grid reference
- NZ 28297 41697
- Latitude
- 54.76942
- Longitude
- -1.56168
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, other burning, and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1773); Other (1926); Excavation (1947); Other (1954); Other (1980)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1008844
- HER
- County Durham 2402292 (second identifier 2303627, 2402293, 2303627, 2744876, 2303627)
- National record
- record NZ 24 SE 38; monument 24516
- Wikidata
- Q31112545
Sources
References
- Jarrett, M.G. 1965. Excavations at Maiden Castle, Durham in 1956. Durham and Northum Archaeol Architec Soc Vol.11, 124-7