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White Damhead
Northumberland, England ยท Atlas EN4295
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4295 (4295)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Berwick-upon-Tweed
- National Grid reference
- NT 9587 5351
- Latitude
- 55.77494
- Longitude
- -2.06740
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.26 ha, 0.45 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1979); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 2490
- National record
- record NT 95 SE 40; monument 4273
- Wikidata
- Q31112210
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.