Holystone, rectilinear enclosure

HER Number:
5470

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Holystone, rectilinear enclosure

Place:
Holystone

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Ridge and Furrow

Site Type: Specific:
Ridge and Furrow

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Cropmark

Description:
Presumed rectilinear enclosure identified on an aerial photograph of 1946. Lies just north of Holystone Farm and south of the Seaton Burn Wagonway (HER 1065). This feature was investigated during trial trenching in 2018 (trenches 58 and 59), and found to be a combination of modern drainage cuts and pronounced furrows, which produced the rectilinear cropmark. It is located in a wet part of the field, and no archaeological features were identified.

Easting:
3003

Northing:
7083

Grid Reference:
NZ30037083

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5470 >> Pers. Comm. S. Speak, 2003, Tyne and Wear Museums Aerial Photograph, NMR, 1946 106G/UK/1193, frame 4150 ASUD, 2015, Killingworth Moor, North Tyneside - Archaeological Assessment ASUD, 2018, Killingworth Moor, North Tyneside: archaeological evaluation