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West Brizlee Camp
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2032
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2032 (2032)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Denwick
- National Grid reference
- NU 1385 1478
- Latitude
- 55.42677
- Longitude
- -1.78258
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1955); Other (1968); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1014067
- HER
- Northumberland 4453
- National record
- record NU 11 SW 2; monument 7199
- Wikidata
- Q31111990
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), 15.