Gibside Estate, earthwork features

HER Number:
16503

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gibside Estate, earthwork features

Place:
Gibside

Map Sheet:
NZ15NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Mound

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
Banks and mounds apparently forming a curved enclosure containing one or more square rectilinear features (buildings?) inside. The features are cut by the modern fenceline and may continue eastwards. A low earthern bank runs downslope to the west for some 14m. The remains are not readily interpretable and may represent more than one phase of activity. No structures are shown in this location on historic mapping, though one or two pencilled rectangular outlines on the Home Guard plan 1942 is remarkably conincident. If this is not a 20th century wartime feature then it possibly represents post-medieval temporary livestock enclosures or perhaps a stack stand. It is also possible that the features are associated with medieval activity predating formation of the estate.

Easting:
1703

Northing:
5836

Grid Reference:
NZ17035836

Lats/Lons:

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