Dewley Hill (or Law) Barrow
Dewley Hill (or Law) Barrow
HER Number
185
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Dewley Hill (or Law) Barrow
Place
Throckley
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Barrow
Site Type: Specific
Round Barrow
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Later Prehistoric -4,000 to 43
Form of Evidence
Earthwork
Description
Described as a round gravelly mound resting on boulder clay, 67 m in diameter, 6.2 m high. In 1966 a 10 feet deep hole in its top (date of digging unknown) revealed only glacial sand and gravel. It is therefore assumed, by most authorities, to be of glacial origin but, because worked flints and a polished stone axe have been found on its top, and others nearby, it may have had secondary use as a barrow. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT
Easting
416030
Northing
568020
Grid Reference
NZ416030568020
Sources
<< HER 185 >> J. Hodgson, 1840, History of Northumberland, Part II, Vol. III, p. 281
H. MacLauchlan, 1858, Memoir written during a Survey of the Roman Wall...1852-1854, p. 17
J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, Transactions Natural History Society of Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, New Series, Vol. III (1908-11), pp. 83-4
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 13
Aerial Photograph, 1960, Cropmarks, 1 m N of Throckley, ACJ 62, Cambridge University Collection
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, I.S.S., 1978, Dewley hill or mound, NZ16NE19
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, no. 2 p. 15 and plate 1.2; Headland Archaeology, 2017. Dewley Hill Surface Mine.
H. MacLauchlan, 1858, Memoir written during a Survey of the Roman Wall...1852-1854, p. 17
J.A. Smythe, 1911, The Glacial Phenomena of the Country between the Tyne & the Wansbeck, Transactions Natural History Society of Northumberland Durham and Newcastle, New Series, Vol. III (1908-11), pp. 83-4
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, XIII, p. 13
Aerial Photograph, 1960, Cropmarks, 1 m N of Throckley, ACJ 62, Cambridge University Collection
Ordnance Survey archaeological record card, I.S.S., 1978, Dewley hill or mound, NZ16NE19
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, no. 2 p. 15 and plate 1.2; Headland Archaeology, 2017. Dewley Hill Surface Mine.