Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718013

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57NE 17 NT 58515 76552

NT 585 765. Aerial photographs (RAF/CPE/Scot/UK257: 4119-20; CUCAP) reveal a triple-ditched rectilinear enclosure (?fort) as crop marks in a cultivated field, N of the River Tyne 1/2 mile SW of East Linton.

Having more or less straight sides and rounded angles, it measures internally about 400ft by 200ft along the axes; the ditces are close-set and there is no trace of an entrance. Air photographs also show 'what appears to be a narrow ditch in the interior, running from N to S and cutting off the NE corner.' There are no traces of internal buildings. (This site is listed by Maxwell among a number of enclosures which he compares with Iron Age timber-house sites on the Northumberland coastal plain).

G Maxwell 1970; RCAHMS Marginal Lands MSS

NT 5851 7655. No trace of this feature was seen on the ground. The site lies in a gently sloping arable field, the ground falling away abruptly along the hedge-line on the S side of the site.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 October 1962

Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS and by CUCAP.

(Undated) information in NMRS.