Salters Lane
Salters Lane
HER Number
19035
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Salters Lane
Place
Longbenton
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Round House (Domestic)
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Iron Age -800 to 43
Description
This shallow penannular ring-gully c.5m in diameter was located northeast of a barrow (HER 19033), and was possibly a drainage gully for an Iron Age roundhouse. It had a 0.7m wide entrance on the southeast side. It was radiocarbon dated to the Later Bronze Age (1510-1320 cal BC) and the limited palaeoenvironmental evidence suggested a monumental site rather than a domestic one, making interpretation difficult, however it could be the truncated remains of a second, much smaller round barrow.
Easting
426240
Northing
571888
Grid Reference
NZ426240571888
Sources
ASDU, 2020, Land east of Salters Lane, Longbenton, Tyne and Wear: post-excavation assessment. ASDU report 5231.
ASDU, 2021, Land east of Salters Lane, Longbenton, Tyne and Wear: post-excavation analysis. ASDU report 5406.
ASDU, 2021, Land east of Salters Lane, Longbenton, Tyne and Wear: post-excavation analysis. ASDU report 5406.