Killingworth, settlement

HER Number

17769

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Killingworth, settlement

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Enclosed Settlement

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Iron Age -800 to 43

Form of Evidence

Physical Evidence

Description

This site was identified during trial trenching in 2018. It consists of three ditches identified in a single trial trench. No finds were recovered, but the charred plant macrofossil assemblages from environmental samples indicate a late prehistoric / Romano-British date.

Easting

429630

Northing

570960

Grid Reference

NZ429630570960

Sources

Archaeological Services Durham University, 2018. Killingworth Moor, North Tyneside: archaeological evaluation, report 4687