Burradon (Seghill) rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
177

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Burradon (Seghill) rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Burradon

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Enclosure

Site Type: Specific:
Ditched Enclosure

General Period:
Roman

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
A rectilinear double-ditched enclosure with an entrance visible but no internal features apparent on aerial photographs. The line of the ditch on the north side is partly obscured by a sike. Likely to be of late Iron Age or Romano-British date. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Easting:
280

Northing:
734

Grid Reference:
NZ280734

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 177 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1963, 1 Nov. G/029455/13-16 -Museum of Antiquities N. McCord & G. Jobey, 1968, Notes on Air Reconnaissance in Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, p. 64 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 49, no. 4 and plate 5.3 Aerial Photograph, T. Gates, 1992, NZ 2873/12, TMG 15967/24 -NMR Aerial Photograph, T. Gates, 1992, NZ 2873/1, TMG 15967/13 -NMR TMG 15967/23 29-JUL-1994; OS/66232 V 106 24-AUG-1966