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The Ringses Camp Doddington
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0523
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0523 (523)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doddington
- National Grid reference
- NU 01357 32819
- Latitude
- 55.58904
- Longitude
- -1.98002
- Altitude
- 154 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1932); Other (1955); Other (1964); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1863-1869)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006585
- HER
- Northumberland 3800
- National record
- record NU 03 SW 23; monument 6307
- Wikidata
- Q31111062
Sources
References
- Tate, G. 1863-9. The Ancient British Sculptured Rocks of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders, with Notices of the Remains Associated with these Sculptures. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 5, 149.
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. A new list of the native sites of Northumberland. Proc Soc Antiq Newcastle (4th Series) 11, 157.