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Nesbit Chesters
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN2041
Location
- Atlas number
- EN2041 (2041)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doddington
- National Grid reference
- NT 9850 3457
- Latitude
- 55.60481
- Longitude
- -2.02528
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1867); Other (1964); Other (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856-1865); Other (None-None)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1006521
- HER
- Northumberland 2130
- National record
- record NT 93 SE 2; monument 3745
- Wikidata
- Q31112259
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), 40-1.