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Horsley Wood
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0549
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0549 (549)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Horsley
- National Grid reference
- NZ 1040 6480
- Latitude
- 54.97772
- Longitude
- -1.83904
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 10919
- Wikidata
- Q31111125
Sources
References
- Tolan-Smith, M. 1997. A Newly Discovered Promontory Fort in the Tyne Valley. Archaeologia Aeliana (5th Series) 25, 145-7