South Shields, ridge and furrow

HER Number

11719

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

South Shields, ridge and furrow

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Cultivation Marks

Site Type: Specific

Ridge and Furrow

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Several blocks of medieval or post medieval ridge and furrow seen as earthworks on vertical photographs from the 1940s. Most blocks have since been built over. Some of the ridge and furrow on the coast edge can still be seen as soilmarks as it has been plough levelled.

Easting

437700

Northing

566000

Grid Reference

NZ437700566000

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1401269; Aerial Photograph RAF/58/B/32 5199 16-MAY-1948; RAF/540/1381 133 07-AUG-1954; RAF/CPE/UK/2352 1159 04-OCT-1947