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Brizlee Wood Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2031
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2031 (2031)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denwick
- National Grid reference
- NU 14098 14042
- Latitude
- 55.42012
- Longitude
- -1.77882
- Altitude
- 114 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Other (1955); Other (1968); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1864)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014066
- HER
- Northumberland 4452
- National record
- record NU 11 SW 1; monument 7194
- Wikidata
- Q31111974
Sources
References
- Jobey, G. 1965. Hillforts and Settlements in Northumberland. Archaeol Aeliana (4th Series) 43
- MacLauchlan, H. 1867. Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland (London), 151.
- Tate, G. 1866. The history of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick, Volume 1 (Alnwick), 9.