Killingworth common fields

HER Number:
801

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Killingworth common fields

Place:
Killingworth

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific:
Broad Ridge and Furrow

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
South of the main road through Killingworth there is a small field (NZ 2830 7075) containing ridge and furrow, with about 20 north-south ridges. The Terrier document of 1373 includes a long list of selions, with acreages and occupiers, which may relate ot the ridge & furrow.

Easting:
28301

Northing:
70741

Grid Reference:
NZ2830170741

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 801 >> 1373, Terrier of Hawkewell Phillips, Newcastle Library Local Studies MS 17242, and Northumberland Records Office 625 Aerial Photograph, Tyne and Wear Archive Service, 8-413-5 Aerial Photograph, North Tyneside MBC Technical Serv, 1980, 18 Oct., Run 4 no. 212