Tyne and Wear HER(12387): Gibside Estate, Leapmill Burn, causeway - Details
12387
Gateshead
Gibside Estate, Leapmill Burn, causeway
Gibside
NZ15NE
Monument
Embankment
Early Modern
C19
Earthwork
Causeway or culvert over Leapmill Burn. In 1858 the burn was cross by a small bridge upstream (east) of the present culvert, causing the road to bend sharply. By 1895 the line had been straigtened, and a new crossing formed some 25m west of the earlier one. This entailed covering-in some 21m of the Leap Mill Burn, effectively forming the present culvert which has a sandstone rubble 'mouth' to the west and a modern lining of a large diameter concrete pipe.
1699
5824
NZ16995824
Harry Beamish, Autumn 1993, Summary Table - Gibside; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment