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Clifford's Fort is a Roman fort located in Northumberland, England, situated along the line of Hadrian's Wall in the northern frontier zone of Roman Britain. The fort dates to the second century AD and served as an auxiliary installation designed to control movement along the wall and defend the surrounding territory. The site preserves the characteristic playing-card layout typical of Roman military architecture, with evidence of defensive ditches and internal structures visible in the archaeological record. As part of the integrated system of Hadrian's Wall, Clifford's Fort represents the strategic military infrastructure through which Rome maintained its presence in northern Britain during the imperial period.
Clifford's Fort is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005896. View the official record →
Clifford's Fort is a Roman fort located in Northumberland, England, situated along the line of Hadrian's Wall in the northern frontier zone of Roman Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005896.
Clifford's Fort is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005896.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman fort, South Shields (0.6 km), Tynemouth Iron Age and Romano-British settlements, monasteries, site of lighthouse, cross, motte, enclosure and artillery castles and later coastal defences (1.3 km), Village of Jarrow (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Clifford's Fort's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Clifford's Fort stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.