Burradon rectilinear enclosure 2

Burradon rectilinear enclosure 2

HER Number
308
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Burradon rectilinear enclosure 2
Place
Burradon
Map Sheet
NZ27SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Enclosure
Site Type: Specific
Rectilinear Enclosure
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Iron Age -800 to 43
Form of Evidence
Cropmark
Description
A rectilinear ditched enclosure 61 metres long and 61 metres wide with slightly rounded corners and possible east facing entrance. Visible as a crop-mark on aerial photographs. It has been suggested as a Romano-British settlement.
Easting
426900
Northing
572500
Grid Reference
NZ426900572500
Sources
<< HER 308 >> Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1964, 4.ix.1964, G/034485/92 -Museum of Antiquities
Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1966, 20.vii.1966, A/044413/21, 25, 26 -Museum of Antiquities
Aerial Photograph, N. McCord,1966, 3.ix.1966, A/045153/10, 11, 13 -Museum of Antiquities
Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, RWE, 1968, Crop-mark enclosure ? Romano British Settlement, NZ27SE6
G. Jobey, 1970, An Iron Age Settlement and Homestead at Burradon, Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVIII, p. 51
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 49 no. 2, p. 123 plate 5
N. McCord & G. Jobey, 1968, Notes on Air Reconnaissance in Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, p. 61
S. Speak, 2003, Tyne and Wear Museums, Land at Burradon Road, North Tyneside, Archaeological Assessment