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Twizel Smithy
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4247
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4247 (4247)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duddo
- National Grid reference
- NT 8863 4359
- Latitude
- 55.68569
- Longitude
- -2.18240
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 976
- National record
- record NT 84 SE 100; monument 1385188
- Wikidata
- Q31112065
Sources
References
- Gates, T. and Deegan, A. 2009. Monuments in the Landscape in Passmore, D.G. and Waddington, C. (eds). Managing Archaeological Landscapes in Northumberland. Till-Tweed Studies, Vol 1. Oxbow, 125-71.