Marshall Lands, rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
688

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Marshall Lands, rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Washingwells

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Enclosure

Site Type: Specific:
Rectilinear Enclosure

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Iron Age

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
Aerial photographs appear to show two straight sides, meeting at a fairly sharp right-angled corner, of a rectilinear enclosure, with possible entrances in each side. There are also other cropmarks in the same field, including two slightly curved linear features, one long and one short, and one quarter circle apparently inside the part enclosure.

Easting:
213

Northing:
602

Grid Reference:
NZ213602

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 688 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069461.13-14, 30.vii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069432.10-13, 29.vii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069486.47-49, 4.viii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities N. McCord & G. Jobey, 1971, Notes on Air Reconnaissance in Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, II, 4, XLIX, p. 122 A.J. Challis & D.W. Harding, 1975, Later Prehistory from Trent to Tyne, British Archaeological Report, pt. 2, p. 49 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 38 no. 5, plate 3.2; Clack, P and Haselgrove, S, 1982. Rural Settlements in the Roman North (101)