Chopwell barrow

HER Number:
337

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Chopwell barrow

Place:
Chopwell

Map Sheet:
NZ15NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary site

Site Type: Specific:
Round Barrow

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
A tree-covered round barrow of earth and stones, 22.45 m in diam, 2.21 m high with what appears to be a surrounding ditch 0.20 m deep and bank, 1.10 m max. width and 0.20 m high.

Easting:
1260

Northing:
5890

Grid Reference:
NZ12605890

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 337 >> R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series,Vol. 5, p. 5 no. 6 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, ISS, 1978, Probable round barrow - ? surrounding ditch R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 10, no. 3