Dewley, ridge and furrow

HER Number

11498

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Dewley, ridge and furrow

Place

Dewley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

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

Narrow ridge and furrow of the Post Medieval period seen as earthworks and levelled earthworks on aerial photographs. Some of this lies in-between the different branches of the Walbottle Moors Waggonway, which was in use from 1769 to 1820. The ridges can be approximately dated by the fact that they lie at right angles to the waggonway with a headland running alongside, and so must post-date the construction of the waggonway.

Easting

416600

Northing

567900

Grid Reference

NZ416600567900

Sources

English Heritage, 2008, Hadrian's Wall National Mapping Programme (1438039); Aerial Photograph NMR OS/92057 169 19-Apr-1992 and RAF CPE/UK/2352 2129 04-Oct-1947; The Archaeological Practice, 1992, Dewley Hill, archaeological assessment, p. 8; Jennifer Morrison, 2007, Newburn manor - an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, pp 96-7 (unpublished MA thesis, Durham University)