<< Text Pages >> Flodden Camp - Hillfort in England in Northumberland
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Flodden CampCountry: England County: Northumberland Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Coldstream Nearest Village: Branxton
Map Ref: NT92373510
Latitude: 55.609442N Longitude: 2.122677W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The site, a sub-oval multivallate enclosure is almost all ploughed out and due to no excavations of the site it is difficult to date. Recent opinion suggests that the site may have begun as a henge, and was subsequently re-used in later prehistory as a defensive enclosure.
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