Tyne and Wear HER(637): Stella, rectilinear enclosure - Details
637
Gateshead
Stella, rectilinear enclosure
Stella
NZ16SE
Monument
Enclosure
Unknown
Cropmark
Aerial photographs of 1972 show cropmarks in a field between Stella Lane and Old Hexham Road, south of Stella. These have been interpreted as part of rectilinear enclosure with widely spaced double ditches, but this is disputed.
1685
6380
NZ16856380
<< HER 637 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1972, Stella, 17 July A/083290/18, 19 -Museum of Antiquities
D.W. Harding, ed. 1975, Gazetteer 1975
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 23 no. 4, p. 120 Plate 2.2.5