Walker, Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound

HER Number:
1417

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walker, 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:

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:
2941

Northing:
6568

Grid Reference:
NZ29416568

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1417 >> Excavation report, G. Jobey, 1965, Stotts House 'Tumulus' and the Military Way, Walker, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLIII, 77-86