Sunnyside, possible enclosure

HER Number

17577

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Sunnyside, possible enclosure

Place

Woolsington

Map Sheet

NZ27SW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Settlement

Site Type: Specific

Enclosed Settlement

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Iron Age -800 to 43

Form of Evidence

Cropmark

Description

Possible Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure, visible on Google Earth from 2015. 42m x 43m. Hut circle, east facing entrance, possible projecting linear. There are other cropmarks in the same field. The potential farmstead was also identified in a geophysical survey conducted in 2018.

Easting

421130

Northing

570450

Grid Reference

NZ421130570450

Sources

Personal comment, David Astbury, 2018; Google Earth 2015; Archaeological Services Durham University. 2018. Kingston Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, geophysical survey, report 4912; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2019. Kingston Village, Newcastle upon Tyne: archaeological evaluation, report 4978; Durham University 2019. Kingston Village, Newcastle upon Tyne, heritage statement report 4906.