Gardener's Houses, holloway

HER Number

16325

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Gardener's Houses, holloway

Place

Gardener's Houses

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Hollow Way

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

Line of holloway within field covered in ridge and furrow (HER16323). Steve Speak recorded in a 1992 assessment 'traces of a hollow way c.5m wide, trending EW…north of a sinuous bank 2.5m wide and 0.50m high'.

Easting

421380

Northing

574450

Grid Reference

NZ421380574450

Sources

Speak, S. 1992, Brenkley O.C.C.S - archaeological survey, Terry Frain and Dagmar Richardson, TMW Archaeology, 2012, Brenkley Lane South - archaeological assessment