Whitley Bay, ridge and furrow

HER Number

12574

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Whitley Bay, ridge and furrow

Place

Whitley Bay

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific

Narrow Ridge and Furrow

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Post Medieval 1540 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

Post medieval ridge and furrow is visble as earthworks and cropmarks on air photographs, in the non-civil parish of North Tyneside. Most is no longer extant on the latest 1988 Ordnance Survey vertical photography.

Easting

435530

Northing

570750

Grid Reference

NZ435530570750

Sources

Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2009, North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment; NMR Monument 1464874; RAF 106G/UK/1193 4156 27-FEB-1946; RAF CPE/UK/2176 5036 27-JUN-1947 RAF CPE/UK/2352 4161 04-OCT-1947