Whickham, ridge and furrow

HER Number:
11681

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, ridge and furrow

Place:
Whickham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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:
Ridge and furrow of Medieval or Post Medieval date seen and mapped from air photographs. Some of the earthworks still survive, but many have been levelled or built over. Earthworks survive adjacent to Dunston Hills coal pits (SAM 30928).

Easting:
218

Northing:
615

Grid Reference:
NZ218615

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432241; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5119 29-MAR-1946, RAF CPE/UK/2352 3207 04-OCT-1947, RAF 58/B/35 5197 16-MAY-1948, NMR NZ 21 61/12 (19865/5) 14-MAR-2001; TWM, 2012, Proposed Dunston Hill, Urban Extension, Dunston, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment