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Chesters
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0522
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0522 (522)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denwick
- National Grid reference
- NU 1724 1648
- Latitude
- 55.44193
- Longitude
- -1.72904
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Other (1955); Other (1963); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014073
- HER
- Northumberland 4427
- National record
- record NU 11 NE 18; monument 6910
- Wikidata
- Q31111033
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 125
- Tate, G. 1866. The history of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick, Volume 1 (Alnwick), 8-9.