Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713232

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT43NW 15 444 353.

NT 444 353. Enclosure, Caddonlee: visible on air photographs.

NY 4447 3531. Vestiges of a square, ditched enclosure with an annexe on its E side are situated on level, regularly ploughed, arable ground at Caddonlee farm. It is 44.0 m by 42.0 m and the annexe is 18.0 m wide. The ditch, which has been spread by ploughing, is up to 6.4 m wide and 0.2 m deep; there appears to have been a causewayed entrance on the E side of the main work. There is no evidence of an upcast bank.

The site is thought locally to have been a penning; however, its origin and purpose cannot be ascertained from the remaining ground evidence. Course of ditches surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (MJF) 1 December 1979

Additional aerial photographs taken by the RCAHMS in 1980.