Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716201

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT46NW 6 NT 42644 68937

(NT 42636891) Earthwork (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1970)

A large earthwork with double ditches appears as a cropmark (RAF AP's CPE/Scot/UK277: 5309-10; 106G/Scot/UK140: 5020) on the crest of a minor ridge 1/4 mile W of Broomrig. The inner ditch, which appears to be 20ft broad at some points, encloses a nearly square area measuring 280ft. along each axis; three of the sides are practically straight while the fourth (E) side is sightly out-curved. The outer ditch runs more or less parallel to the first, but is separated from it by a distance varying from 30ft on the S to 100ft on the E and N. An entrance can be seen directly through both ditches in the centre of the E side of the earthwork.

RCAHMS MS 1954

This is a settlement; the sites of houses are visible on air photograph.

J K St Joseph 1967

Although nothing can be seen on the ground, the site, as described was probably that of a settlement.

Site surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 21 January 1971

This settlement is close in form to those Iron Age settlements found on the coastal plain of SE Northumberland. Additional air photographs have been taken of it by the RCAHMS.

H Welfare 1980; N McCord and G Jobey 1971

Further aerial photographs taken in 1980 and 1995.

(Undated) information in NMRS.