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Middleton Dean
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0473
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0473 (473)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ilderton
- National Grid reference
- NT 99788 21932
- Latitude
- 55.49117
- Longitude
- -2.00490
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1969); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2003); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1019420
- HER
- Northumberland 1753
- National record
- record NT 92 SE 41; monument 3462
- Wikidata
- Q31110743
Sources
References
- Ainsworth, S. and Hunt A. 2004. An Iron Age hillfort at Middleton Dean, Northumberland. English Heritage Archaeological Investigation Report Series AI\4\2004. Unpublished
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Additional Notes to Memoir to Roman Roads in Northumberland. 45. Unpublished
- Oswald, A. Ainsworth, S. and Pearson, T. 2006 Hillforts: Prehistoric Strongholds of Northumberland National Park. English Heritage