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Possible prehistoric settlement NNE of Flodden. (Ford)

Cropmark of square enclosure near Flodden Bridge. Photo © Tim Gates.
Cropmark of square enclosure near Flodden Bridge. Photo © Tim Gates.
(NT 9224 3541) Crop mark of enclosure. (1)

Listed among rectilinear earthworks tentatively classified as Romano-British. (2)

No surface traces, site falls in an arable field. (3)

Crop mark shows three sides of a square/rectangular(?) enclosure. (4)

Three complete sides, and part of the fourth side are visible on aerial photographs taken in 2003. (5)

A single ditched rectilinear enclosure stands on an E-facing slope at 70m OD. Approximately two thirds of the perimeter is visible an air photographs but the SE quadrant is obscured by a road. There is no definite indication of any entrance or of interior occupation. The enclosure measures 50m E-W by 50m N-S and has an internal area of c.0.25ha. (6) (

Scheduled. (7)

NT 922534 Camp 400yds (370m) north-north-east of Flodden; scheduled. (8a)

The site has been mapped from the air as part of the Milfield Geoarchaeology Project. (See archive object MD000293) (8)
N1835
Roman (43 to 410)
Scheduled Ancient Monument
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1967; R W Emsley


Source of Reference
Local History of Ford

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