Marshall Lands, rectilinear enclosure

HER Number

688

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Marshall Lands, rectilinear enclosure

Place

Washingwells

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Unassigned

Site Type: Broad

Archaeological Feature

Site Type: Specific

Site

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Iron Age -800 to 43

Form of Evidence

Cropmark

Description

Aerial photographs appear to show two straight sides, meeting at a fairly sharp right-angled corner, of a rectilinear enclosure, with possible entrances in each side. There are also other cropmarks in the same field, including two slightly curved linear features, one long and one short, and one quarter circle apparently inside the part enclosure.

Easting

421300

Northing

560200

Grid Reference

NZ421300560200

Sources

<< HER 688 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069461.13-14, 30.vii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities
Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069432.10-13, 29.vii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities
Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1970, Marshall Lands, A.069486.47-49, 4.viii.1970 -Museum of Antiquities
N. McCord & G. Jobey, 1971, Notes on Air Reconnaissance in Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, II, 4, XLIX, p. 122
A.J. Challis & D.W. Harding, 1975, Later Prehistory from Trent to Tyne, British Archaeological Report, pt. 2, p. 49
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 38 no. 5, plate 3.2; Clack, P and Haselgrove, S, 1982. Rural Settlements in the Roman North (101)