Defended settlement west of West Brizlee (Denwick)
(NU 13851478) Camp. (1)
Enclosure with cliffs as part of defences. (2)
Little more than a semicircle in form remaining. (3)
Partly destroyed when making a road, but there are traces of two ramparts and two ditches. Entrance on north east side. (4)
NU 13911472. The remains of this earthwork have been wrongly positioned on OS 6 inch. It consists of a semi circular work at the end of a small promontory of no natural strength. There are no remains of the south west side, and there the land falls steeply down to the south west forming a sort of cliff face c.400m south west of the earthwork. The defences are formed by two large banks and ditches, the average height of the outer and inner banks being 3m and 2m respectively, the probable entrance is at the north east side and there are no internal habitation sites. The banks are of earth with few stones visible and are quite massive. (5)
Listed as Iron Age multivallate (forts, settlements and enclosures). (6)
The work is typically Iron Age in form and construction and is probably an enclosure rather than a fort. It has now been reafforested. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (7)
Scheduled. (8)
NU 138 148. West Brizlee camp. Scheduled No ND/456. (9a)
Enclosure with cliffs as part of defences. (2)
Little more than a semicircle in form remaining. (3)
Partly destroyed when making a road, but there are traces of two ramparts and two ditches. Entrance on north east side. (4)
NU 13911472. The remains of this earthwork have been wrongly positioned on OS 6 inch. It consists of a semi circular work at the end of a small promontory of no natural strength. There are no remains of the south west side, and there the land falls steeply down to the south west forming a sort of cliff face c.400m south west of the earthwork. The defences are formed by two large banks and ditches, the average height of the outer and inner banks being 3m and 2m respectively, the probable entrance is at the north east side and there are no internal habitation sites. The banks are of earth with few stones visible and are quite massive. (5)
Listed as Iron Age multivallate (forts, settlements and enclosures). (6)
The work is typically Iron Age in form and construction and is probably an enclosure rather than a fort. It has now been reafforested. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (7)
Scheduled. (8)
NU 138 148. West Brizlee camp. Scheduled No ND/456. (9a)
N4453
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; J H Ostridge
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
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