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Bardon Mill
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0494
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0494 (494)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bardon Mill
- National Grid reference
- NY 7767 6979
- Latitude
- 55.02217
- Longitude
- -2.35080
- Altitude
- 241 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour 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
- 0.46 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east); In-turned (South east); Out-turned (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1998); Other (2005); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970-1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1017961
- HER
- Northumberland 6593
- National record
- record NY 76 NE 43; monument 15266
- Wikidata
- Q31110845
Sources
References
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later Prehistory Trent to Tyne, British Archaeological Report 200 (ii) (Oxford), 48.