South Shields, ridge and furrow

HER Number:
11719

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, ridge and furrow

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific:
Ridge and Furrow

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Several blocks of medieval or post medieval ridge and furrow seen as earthworks on vertical photographs from the 1940s. Most blocks have since been built over. Some of the ridge and furrow on the coast edge can still be seen as soilmarks as it has been plough levelled.

Easting:
377

Northing:
660

Grid Reference:
NZ377660

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1401269; Aerial Photograph RAF/58/B/32 5199 16-MAY-1948; RAF/540/1381 133 07-AUG-1954; RAF/CPE/UK/2352 1159 04-OCT-1947