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Flodden Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0537
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0537 (537)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ford
- National Grid reference
- NT 9237 3510
- Latitude
- 55.60948
- Longitude
- -2.12267
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- SE 3, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.5 ha, 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); 1st Identified Written Reference (1919-1922); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006481
- HER
- Northumberland 1829
- National record
- record NT 93 NW 22; monument 3693
- Wikidata
- Q31111148
Sources
References
- Harding A.F. 1987, Henge monuments and related sites of Great Britain, B.A.R. Brit. Ser. No.175. 210-11
- Hogg, A.H.A.1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62. 122
- MacLauchlan, H. 1919-22. Notes on camps in the parishes of Branxton, Carham, Ford, Kirknewton and Wooler in Northumberland. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club, 460.
- Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. 2012. Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland. Till-Tweed studies, Vol 2. Oxbow