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Dendon
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0512
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0512 (512)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cartington
- National Grid reference
- NU 0801 0049
- Latitude
- 55.29848
- Longitude
- -1.87539
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1957); Other (1972); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1002909
- HER
- Northumberland 2903
- National record
- record NU 00 SE 7; monument 4439
- Wikidata
- Q31110929
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 167.
- Jobey, G .1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63 No.104
- MacLauchlan, H.1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 83.