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Near Doddington
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN1854
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1854 (1854)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doddington
- National Grid reference
- NU 0012 3345
- Latitude
- 55.59471
- Longitude
- -1.99965
- Altitude
- 96 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1964); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3781
- National record
- record NU 03 SW 4; monument 6198
- Wikidata
- Q31111517
Sources
References
- Maddison M. and Sellers P. 1990. A survey of Doddington and Horton Moors, Northumberland, Northern Archaeol,10
- Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. 2012. Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland. Till-Tweed studies, Vol 2. Oxbow