Whickham, ridge and furrow

HER Number

11681

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Whickham, ridge and furrow

Place

Whickham

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific

Ridge and Furrow

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

Ridge and furrow of Medieval or Post Medieval date seen and mapped from air photographs. Some of the earthworks still survive, but many have been levelled or built over. Earthworks survive adjacent to Dunston Hills coal pits (SAM 30928).

Easting

421800

Northing

561500

Grid Reference

NZ421800561500

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432241; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5119 29-MAR-1946, RAF CPE/UK/2352 3207 04-OCT-1947, RAF 58/B/35 5197 16-MAY-1948, NMR NZ 21 61/12 (19865/5) 14-MAR-2001; TWM, 2012, Proposed Dunston Hill, Urban Extension, Dunston, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment