Clara Vale, ridge and furrow

HER Number:
11622

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Clara Vale, ridge and furrow

Place:
Clara Vale

Map Sheet:
NZ16SW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Ridge and Furrow

Site Type: Specific:
Narrow Ridge and Furrow

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
Post medieval narrow ridge and furrow earthworks on air photographs taken in the 1940s. More recent air photography taken primarily in the 1990s shows that some of the earthworks are no longer extant, some are built over and some are quarried.

Easting:
139

Northing:
625

Grid Reference:
NZ139625

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1440483; Aerial Photograph RAF CPE/UK/2352 3221 04-OCT-1947; RAF CPE/UK/2352 1217 04-OCT-1947; AD Archaeology, 2015, Land north of A695, Crawcrook, Gateshead - Geophysical Survey