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Middle Dean Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN0558
Location
- Atlas number
- EN0558 (558)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NU 0041 1463
- Latitude
- 55.42560
- Longitude
- -1.99507
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.53 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Oblique (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory, cliff, plateau edge, or scarp, and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast and south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heath
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1934); Other (1957); Other (1969); Other (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021382
- HER
- Northumberland 3190
- National record
- record NU 01 SW 1; monument 1033862
- Wikidata
- Q31111233
Sources
References
- Hogg, A.H.A. 1979. British Hill-Forts. An Index. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 62; 123
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43, 63, No. 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 54