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Needle's Eye
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN4227
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4227 (4227)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Berwick-on-Tweed
- National Grid reference
- NT 9897 5522
- Latitude
- 55.79032
- Longitude
- -2.01799
- Altitude
- 44 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.26 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South west); In-turned (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2004); 1st Identified Written Reference (2012); Excavation (2005-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 2401
- National record
- record NT 95 NE 33; monument 1472792
- Wikidata
- Q31112050
Sources
References
- GSB Prospection, 2004. Geophysical Survey, North Road Industrial Estate. Unpublished
- Proctor, J. 2012 The Needles Eye Enclosure, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Arch Aeliana, 5th Series, 41, 19-122