Gateshead, Bottle Bank, possible prehistoric features

HER Number:
5632

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Bottle Bank, possible prehistoric features

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Ditch

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Iron Age?

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
Possible prehistoric features were found during excavations in 2000 - a possible gully was found in Smith's Yard, cut into the natural clay, orientated north-south, 1.2 metres wide and 2 metres deep. It was filled with grey brown clay and yellow sandy clay. At the southern rounded end a possible stakehole or posthole was found. To the north in Dobson and Hawk's Yard, a short fragment of a curving feature with a v-shped profile was recorded. It was cut by an alignment of postholes which dated to the C3. Another shallow ditch or gully was found running north-east to south-west was filled with grey sandy silt. This was on the line of a later wall so its suggested early date may be questionable. The earliest feature lay at the northernmost part of the site. A linear feature running east-west, 2 metres long and 1.04 metres wide. It was filled with dark grey sandy soil which produced C2 pottery.

Easting:
253

Northing:
635

Grid Reference:
NZ253635

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5632 >> Oxford Archaeology North, 2003, Bottle Bank, Gateshead, Archaeological Excavation Report - Draft