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East Dod Law
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN1932
Location
- Atlas number
- EN1932 (1932)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doddington
- National Grid reference
- NU 0075 3163
- Latitude
- 55.57838
- Longitude
- -1.98965
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Footprint
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Other (1955); Other (1964); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1990); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1885-1900)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3802
- National record
- record NU 03 SW 25; monument 6317
- Wikidata
- Q31111635
Sources
References
- Jobey, G.1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H., 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London), 43 and Sheet 3.
- Maddison M. and Sellers P. 1990, A survey of Doddington and Horton Moors, Northumberland, Northern Archaeol, 10, 29-76