Dene or Dean Lane

HER Number

4913

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Dene or Dean Lane

Place

Cleadon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Trackway

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Earthwork

Description

A trackway or "greenway", approximately 7 metres wide, orientated north-south. Slightly sunken in places with occasional banks on parts of both sides. Map research shows that this is an early pre-enclosure landscape feature, first shown on the enclosure award map of 1718.

Easting

439070

Northing

561500

Grid Reference

NZ439070561500

Sources

<< HER 4913 >> RPS Consultants, 2000, Sunderland AFC Academy, Whitburn Moor, Tyne and Wear, Archaeological Assessment