Wallsend, narrow ridge and furrow

HER Number:
11647

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, narrow ridge and furrow

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific:
Ridge and Furrow

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
Narrow ridge and furrow of Post Medieval date and ridge and furrow of possible Medieval date mapped from air photographs. To the east of Salter's Lane some of the features centred at NZ 264 694 remain as earthworks, but some are levelled. Other remains have been destroyed by development.

Easting:
264

Northing:
694

Grid Reference:
NZ264694

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1430331; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4182 27-FEB-1946 and RAF 106G/UK/1193 4178 27-FEB-1946 and RAF 106G/LA/106 1044 21-JAN-1945