Ravensworth, rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
339

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ravensworth, rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Ravensworth

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:
Enclosure

Site Type: Specific:
Rectilinear Enclosure

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
A rectilinear ditched enclosure is visible on aerial photogrpahs, with what appear to be 3 internal circular structures, in a rough east-west line across the site. There may also be another smaller enclosure inside, and there is a possible trackway entering from the south and then splitting into 3 to approach these internal structures.

Easting:
232

Northing:
590

Grid Reference:
NZ232590

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 339 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,196?, Ravensworth, A/074315/13-15, 18; A/075247/30 -Museum of Antiquities R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 31, no. 1, and pl. 2.6