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West Wylam
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0474
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0474 (474)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Prudhoe
- National Grid reference
- NZ 10568 63566
- Latitude
- 54.96663
- Longitude
- -1.83646
- Altitude
- 53 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and lowland
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2002-2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 27219
- National record
- record NZ 16 SW 90; monument 1443439
- Wikidata
- Q31110687
Sources
References
- Oakey, M. 2009. Hadrian's Wall WHS: NMP Project: NMP summary report. Report No 73-2009. Centre for Archaeology Report series. Unpublished