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Nw of Elwick
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2021
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2021 (2021)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Belford with Middleton
- National Grid reference
- NU 1050 3740
- Latitude
- 55.63009
- Longitude
- -1.83479
- Altitude
- 19 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 2.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and lowland
- Aspect
- north, south, and west
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 5074
- National record
- record NU 13 NW 7; monument 7562
- Wikidata
- Q31111699
Sources
References
- Gates, T. CBA Grp 3 Bull Ser 2 No 7 Apr 1979, 22