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Fawdon Dean
Northumberland, England · Atlas EN4308
Location
- Atlas number
- EN4308 (4308)
- Country
- England
- Current county or unitary authority
- Northumberland
- Historic county
- Northumberland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ingram
- National Grid reference
- NU 0175 1520
- Latitude
- 55.43074
- Longitude
- -1.97343
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and roundhouses
- Finds
- metalworking and animal bones
- Investigations
- Other (1989); Geophysical Survey (2000); Excavation (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northumberland 3138
- National record
- record NU 0 1 NW 164; monument 1381892
- Wikidata
- Q31112266
Sources
References
- Frodsham, P. and C. Waddington. 2004. The Breamish Valley Archaeology Project, 1994_2002. In P. Frodsham (ed.) Archaeology in Northumberland National Park. York, CBA Rep. 136, 171_89.
- 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.