Bradley Hall, possible barrow
Bradley Hall, possible barrow
HER Number
517
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Bradley Hall, possible barrow
Place
Bradley
Map Sheet
NZ16SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Barrow
Site Type: Specific
Round Barrow
General Period
UNCERTAIN
Specific Period
Uncertain
Form of Evidence
Earthwork
Description
This possible but unproven barrow was first reported in 1952 in a letter from W.A. Cocks to the Ordnance Survey. It is round, flat-topped, without surrounding bank and ditch, 11.10 m in diameter and 1.50 m high, and has trees on it. It is situated low down in the dene of the Bradley Burn on the west side of the stream.
Easting
412530
Northing
563170
Grid Reference
NZ412530563170
Sources
<< HER 517 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, E.C. Waight, 1959, Possible Bronze Age Tumulus
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, p. 10 no. 45
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 19 no. 6
Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks - Site 17
R. Young, 1980, An Inventory of Barrows in Co. Durham, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, p. 10 no. 45
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 19 no. 6
Museum of Antiquities, Notebooks of W.A. Cocks - Site 17