Archaeology Notes

Event ID 784589

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT77NW 22 NT 72831 75266

See also NT77NW 24.

(NT 7282 7527) The cropmarks of a rectilinear enclosure, some 500m W of Skateraw, are visible on aerial photographs (Fairey Survey Ltd, 20/986-91, flown 1974; RCAHMS, flown 1976, 1978, 1979).

Information from IAM 6" plan.

Aerial reconnaissance has recorded cropmarks of a ditched, sub-rectangular enclosure, transcribed by RCAHMS (MMB)(MS840/436, 1991), lying against the NE side of a field on level ground, less than 300m SSE of Dryburn Bridge. The NNE side is obscured, but the enclosure measures c.50m (WNW-ESE) by at least 55m. The ditch measures 2m and appears on some photographs as two lines, suggesting a possible double palisade enclosing the site. There is a possible entrance gap of about 6m in the ESE side, and a single linear ditch inside the enclosure, running for almost 20m parallel to the WNW side, about 22m along. Two small sub-circular ditches are also visible within the site, one near the S corner and the other near the NNE side measuring about 3m and 5m in diameter respectively.

Information from RCAHMS (MJ), 29 February 1996.

The cropmark of a ditch forming three sides of this possibly square enclosure is visible 500m W of Skateraw. The enclosure has an approximate width of about 50m, and the railway line and embankment have cut the N part of the enclosure, presumably obscuring the boundary on this side. A possible entrance can be seen on the E side, and internally the cropmark of a straight stretch of ditch, about 18m long, is visible, running symmetrically between, and parallel to, the E and W sides.

Various cropmarks including those of a ring-ditch have been recorded in the same field (NT77NW 24).

Information from RCAHMS (KB), 1 April 1999