Damhead Wood rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
173

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Damhead Wood rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Damhead Wood

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Enclosure

Site Type: Specific:
Rectilinear Enclosure

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
A rectilinear double-ditched enclosure 79 m long and 42 m wide with some internal features and an entrance visible on aerial photographs. The top of a beehive quern was recovered from this site, and in 1988 was in the possession of a resident of Old Sunniside. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Easting:
192

Northing:
611

Grid Reference:
NZ192611

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 173 >> Aerial Photograph, J.K. St. Joseph, 1952, - J x 37-39- Museum of Antiquities Cambridge University Aerial Photo Collection Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1971, Winlaton Mill, 14 July, A/076378/1-6 -Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord, 1971, Winlaton Mill, 3 Aug., A/076715. 31, 32 -Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1971, Winlaton Mill, A/076690/11-14 -Museum of Antiquities A.J. Challis & D.W. Harding, 1975, Later Prehistory from Trent to Tyne, British Archaeological Report, Vol. 20, 49, 169 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 23 no. 2, and plate 2.3 Aerial Photograph, Cambridge University Aerial Photo Collection - 1972, crop marks, 0.75 m West of Whickham, 20 July, 78/194613