Chopwell barrow
Chopwell barrow
HER Number
337
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Chopwell barrow
Place
Chopwell
Map Sheet
NZ15NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Barrow
Site Type: Specific
Round Barrow
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Earthwork
Description
A tree-covered round barrow of earth and stones, 22.45 m in diam, 2.21 m high with what appears to be a surrounding ditch 0.20 m deep and bank, 1.10 m max. width and 0.20 m high.
Easting
412600
Northing
558900
Grid Reference
NZ412600558900
Sources
<< HER 337 >> R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series,Vol. 5, p. 5 no. 6
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, ISS, 1978, Probable round barrow - ? surrounding ditch
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 10, no. 3
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, ISS, 1978, Probable round barrow - ? surrounding ditch
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 10, no. 3