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Bleak Ridge
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4279
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4279 (4279)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duddo
- National Grid reference
- NT 9427 4569
- Latitude
- 55.70466
- Longitude
- -2.09266
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 0.82 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1975); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 2220
- National record
- record NT 94 NW 14; monument 4037
- Wikidata
- Q31112110
Sources
References
- Clack, P.A.G and Gosling, P.F. 1975 Archaeology in the North: Gazetteer, 83
- 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.