Gardener's Houses rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
176

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gardener's Houses rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Dinnington

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Enclosure

Site Type: Specific:
Rectilinear Enclosure

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
A rectilinear enclosure with internal features (a possible hut circle) and single entrance visible on aerial photographs as a crop mark, with a ring ditch just west of the site. Fainter crop-marks in the vicinity suggest that this site may have had a more complex pattern of occupation, but its phasing is presently unclear. Likely to be of late Iron Age or Romano-British date. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Easting:
2092

Northing:
7422

Grid Reference:
NZ20927422

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 176 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1969, 15 Aug., A/063350/2 - Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1969, A/063551/1-3 -Museum of Antiquities Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1969, 28 Aug., G/063567/36-38 -Museum of Antiquities . McCord & G. Jobey, 1971, Notes on Air Reconnaissance in Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, II 4, XLIX, p. 121 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 47, no. 3, and plate 3.5 Aerial Photograph, NAR T.Gates, 1989, 31.iii.1989, 3945/21-31 -Museum of Antiquities J.A. Biggins, J. Biggins, R. Coxon & M. Watson, 1997, Survey of the Prehistoric Settlement at Gardener's Houses Farm... Durham Archaeological Journal, 13, 1997,