Gibside Estate, livestock pen

HER Number:
16501

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gibside Estate, livestock pen

Place:
Gibside

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Pen

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Timber construction livestock pen. The horizontal timbers are reused roof joists and have mortices to take uprights, some joints having chisel-cut carpentry marks for assembly. The timber is machine-cut, and probably of late 19th - early 20th century date. They may have derived from demolition of the Lodge, or the cow byre. Fragments of glazed white earthenware pottery and brick and tile chips in the soil here presumably derive from Watergate Lodge. Proposed for demolition in 2011.

Easting:
1701

Northing:
5828

Grid Reference:
NZ17015828

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2011, New car parking Warren Haugh and West Wood, Gibside - Archaeological Assessment