Boldon, circular feature (possible racecourse site)

HER Number:
11697

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Boldon, circular feature (possible racecourse site)

Place:
Boldon

Map Sheet:
NZ36SE

Class:
Unassigned

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Non Antiquity

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
Possible circular enclosure seen on Tyne and Wear County Council aerial photograph no. 890 by Roger Miket. Later photographs seem to show a pond or area of standing water with two drains at this location. Probably not an antiquity but a natural feature. This could be the site of the Sunderland and South Shields Racecourse 1897-c.1915.

Easting:
377

Northing:
614

Grid Reference:
NZ377614

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 762560; R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 85, No. 2; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas