Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound
Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound
HER Number
1417
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound
Place
Walker
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Cultivation Marks
Site Type: Specific
Plough Marks
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
When Jobey dug the surviving mound at Stotts House in 1964 he found beneath it plough-marks. These were the earliest evidence for human activity on the site and, because they predated the military way associated with Hadrian's Wall, he concluded they were either prehistoric or Roman.
Easting
429410
Northing
565680
Grid Reference
NZ429410565680
Sources
<< HER 1417 >> Excavation report, G. Jobey, 1965, Stotts House 'Tumulus' and the Military Way, Walker, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLIII, 77-86