Harton Down Hill

HER Number

6815

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Harton Down Hill

Place

Harton

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farmstead

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The farm is shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Site now occupied by Down Hill Nursery School. The house was stone-built. Paths led from the farm to the fields on the Leas, where field boundary and ridge and furrow earthworks are still visible (HER 887). The fields were used for grazing and potatoes.

Easting

439010

Northing

565470

Grid Reference

NZ439010565470

Sources

<< HER 6815 >> The Arbeia Society, 2004, Archaeological Survey of the coast from South Shields to Whitburn