Tyne and Wear HER(1417): Walker, Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound - Details
1417
Newcastle
Walker, Stotts House, plough-marks beneath the mound
Walker
NZ26NE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Cultivation Marks
Plough Marks
Prehistoric
Find
When Jobey dug the surviving mound at Stotts House in 1964 he found beneath it plough-marks. These were the earliest evidence for human activity on the site and, because they predated the military way associated with Hadrian's Wall, he concluded they were either prehistoric or Roman.
2941
6568
NZ29416568
<< HER 1417 >> Excavation report, G. Jobey, 1965, Stotts House 'Tumulus' and the Military Way, Walker, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLIII, 77-86