Camp Field Iron Age enclosure (Duddo)
(NT 95644324) Earthworka [L.B.]. (1)
Camp Field Duddo, an irregular earthwork with single rampart. (2)
Listed as pre-Roman. (3)
A semi-circular earthwork with double ramparts and medial ditch ending on the edge of a steep sided natural ravine. The inner rampart is reduced by ploughing to an outward facing scarp 0.6m high, whilst the remainder is much spread and rather vague. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (4)
Condition generally unchanged, but published survey (25 inch) revised. (5)
Site is shown as a cropmark on a series of aerial photographs taken in the 2000s. The site can be seen as two concentric marks within set-aside land in commercial, non-archaeological, aerial photography of 2001. No internal features can be seen within the innermost ditches. (6)
The site is further shown by 2006 Google Earth aerial photographs of the area. The monument, again shown as a cropmark, appears as an enclosed settlement bounded by two broad ditches. Neither ditch is visible as a complete circuit, and the cropmarks end by the side of the field. It is unclear if the anything remains of the earthworks in the apparently steep dene-side slopes to the south. The innermost ditch is a 'circular penanular' shape terminating with a wide gap to the west. Within the enclosure there are three dark splodges of cropmarks, which might be appropriate to, but cannot be identified as hut circles with any certainty. The outer ditch is roughly concentric and parallel to the inner ditch visible, though seemingly squashed to have been dug to the side of the small gully that runs north-south to the main east-west dene. (7)
Camp Field Duddo, an irregular earthwork with single rampart. (2)
Listed as pre-Roman. (3)
A semi-circular earthwork with double ramparts and medial ditch ending on the edge of a steep sided natural ravine. The inner rampart is reduced by ploughing to an outward facing scarp 0.6m high, whilst the remainder is much spread and rather vague. Published survey (25 inch) revised. (4)
Condition generally unchanged, but published survey (25 inch) revised. (5)
Site is shown as a cropmark on a series of aerial photographs taken in the 2000s. The site can be seen as two concentric marks within set-aside land in commercial, non-archaeological, aerial photography of 2001. No internal features can be seen within the innermost ditches. (6)
The site is further shown by 2006 Google Earth aerial photographs of the area. The monument, again shown as a cropmark, appears as an enclosed settlement bounded by two broad ditches. Neither ditch is visible as a complete circuit, and the cropmarks end by the side of the field. It is unclear if the anything remains of the earthworks in the apparently steep dene-side slopes to the south. The innermost ditch is a 'circular penanular' shape terminating with a wide gap to the west. Within the enclosure there are three dark splodges of cropmarks, which might be appropriate to, but cannot be identified as hut circles with any certainty. The outer ditch is roughly concentric and parallel to the inner ditch visible, though seemingly squashed to have been dug to the side of the small gully that runs north-south to the main east-west dene. (7)
N2378
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1962; W D Johnston
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1967; D King
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1967; D King
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
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