Tyne and Wear HER(17817): Town End Farm, Bronze Age Ditch - Details
17817
Town End Farm, Bronze Age Ditch
Sunderland
NZ35NW
Monument
Ditch
Ditch
PREHISTORIC
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Physical Evidence
A north-west to south-east aligned ditch which measured 10m> x 2.6m wide and 0.22m deep. The ditch was recut by a feature 18m> x 5.4m wide and 0.2m deep. Alder stem charcoal was obtained from environmental samples of the ditch. Charcoal, obtained from the ditch during the evaluation, provided a late Bronze Age radiocarbon date (1220-1020cal BC).
433900
558950
NZ433900558950
Archaeological Research Services, 2019, IAMP One Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, archaeological monitoring