Gosforth, golf course, slit trenches

HER Number:
11730

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gosforth, golf course, slit trenches

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Trench

Site Type: Specific:
Slit Trench

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
Slit trenches seen and mapped from air photographs. Seen as crop and soil marks beneath the position of a former gun-laying mat (HER 5499). At least two lines of trenches were seen, lying at right angles. One line of castellated appearance ran for 230m east-west. The other of chevron appearance ran north-east to south-west for just over 100.

Easting:
2480

Northing:
6907

Grid Reference:
NZ24806907

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1433714; Aerial Photograph NMR OS/92057 100 19-APR-1992