Harton Down Hill

HER Number:
6815

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Harton Down Hill

Place:
Harton

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The farm is shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Site now occupied by Down Hill Nursery School. The house was stone-built. Paths led from the farm to the fields on the Leas, where field boundary and ridge and furrow earthworks are still visible (HER 887). The fields were used for grazing and potatoes.

Easting:
3901

Northing:
6547

Grid Reference:
NZ39016547

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 6815 >> The Arbeia Society, 2004, Archaeological Survey of the coast from South Shields to Whitburn