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Barnard Castle, Marwood
County Durham, England ยท Atlas EN3881
Location
- Atlas number
- EN3881 (3881)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- County Durham
- Historic county
- County Durham
- Parish, community, or townland
- Marwood
- National Grid reference
- NZ 02462 19510
- Latitude
- 54.57082
- Longitude
- -1.96343
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, inland promontory, and spur
- Aspect
- south and west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1946); Other (1972); 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1021113
- HER
- County Durham 2383259, 2302284
- National record
- record NZ 01 NW 1; monument 19872
- Wikidata
- Q31112548
Sources
References
- Challis, A.J. and Harding, D.W., 1975. Later prehistory from the Trent to the Tyne. BAR British Series 1 (1974) - 20 (i-ii), 51
- Clack, P. 1980. Archaeology of the Durham Dales (46), 46