Defended settlement south of West Brizlee (Denwick)
(NU 14091403) Camp. (1)
Near circular enclosure with multiple ramparts. (2)
Inner rampart and part of outer rampart in good preservation. (3)
Two entrances, one on the north, and the other on the west. A hollow runs down the hill from the camp. (4)
A simple enclosure situated on the slope of a hill facing north west, having a well formed single rampart and outer ditch. The rampart of earth and stone measures c.6m in width varying in height from ground level to 1.6m; the ditch has an average width of 5m. At the south west corner the rampart has been broken by a modern ditch and this break gives the rampart the appearance of never having been continuous. There are two entrances, one on the south east and the other, 4m wide, at the north where the ditch is non-existent. There are no internal
dwellings or walling and the earthwork is considered to be purely pastoral. (5)
Listed under Iron Age univallate enclosures on slopes. (6)
As described, except that the suggested entrance on the north side is no more than a modern lowering of the bank with the continuation of the ditch clearly visible as a superficial depression.
The work is one of a small number of hill-slope enclosures in the county, which in proportion and construction are clearly in the local Iron Age tradition, but whose function is obscure.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (7)
Scheduled. (8)
NU 141 141. Brizlee Wood camp. Scheduled No ND/457. (9a)
Near circular enclosure with multiple ramparts. (2)
Inner rampart and part of outer rampart in good preservation. (3)
Two entrances, one on the north, and the other on the west. A hollow runs down the hill from the camp. (4)
A simple enclosure situated on the slope of a hill facing north west, having a well formed single rampart and outer ditch. The rampart of earth and stone measures c.6m in width varying in height from ground level to 1.6m; the ditch has an average width of 5m. At the south west corner the rampart has been broken by a modern ditch and this break gives the rampart the appearance of never having been continuous. There are two entrances, one on the south east and the other, 4m wide, at the north where the ditch is non-existent. There are no internal
dwellings or walling and the earthwork is considered to be purely pastoral. (5)
Listed under Iron Age univallate enclosures on slopes. (6)
As described, except that the suggested entrance on the north side is no more than a modern lowering of the bank with the continuation of the ditch clearly visible as a superficial depression.
The work is one of a small number of hill-slope enclosures in the county, which in proportion and construction are clearly in the local Iron Age tradition, but whose function is obscure.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (7)
Scheduled. (8)
NU 141 141. Brizlee Wood camp. Scheduled No ND/457. (9a)
N4452
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; J H Ostridge
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
FIELD SURVEY, Hill forts and settlements in Northumberland ; G Jobey
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