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Fordwood Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0536
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0536 (536)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ford
- National Grid reference
- NT 9716 3644
- Latitude
- 55.62157
- Longitude
- -2.04665
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1946); Other (1964); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006522
- HER
- Northumberland 1948
- National record
- record NT 93 NE 6; monument 3579
- Wikidata
- Q31111130
Sources
References
- MacLauchlan, H, 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 40.