The Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.
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Old Shipley medieval village (Eglingham, Northumberland). A small L-shaped area consisting of rectangular and sub-rectangular enclosures with smaller rectangular enclosures obviously remains of steadings within. The banks have an average width of 1m and an average ht of 0.4m; the smaller enclosures have central hollows within the banks, some of which contain dressed stones. A stream runs east-west through the northern half of the area. Documentary references: 1296, 1336, 1361, 1580, 1694, 1756. Extensive earthwork remains north and east of a current cottage/farm. Rows of houses, tofts and a green. K2P: N4412 My local golf-course is a good place for learning about what you can see using LIDAR. I am using DTM LIDAR this time, enhanced in colour by my usual preference for exploring archaeology in the field. The golf course uses grounds that were formerly the parkland of a big mansion house, and I need to see below the trees. You can see tees, grassy mounds, bunkers and greens of the modern golf course along with some remaining features from past land use including a cricket ground, old tracks, buidings, ha-ha walls, and a small area remaining of rigg & furrow. On the enhanced LIDAR, white shows banks and black shows pits and ditches, grey is flat land, and blue slopes to the south. Contours created from the LIDAR at an interval of 20cm gives you an idea of the scale of earthworks that you can see. Some features have a height difference even smaller than that (like eges of rough grass) but perhaps helped here by the managed short turf. Suprising survival of a Romano-British settlement on Chesterfield Common near Steel, Northumberland, UK). It is located just east of a large former ironstone mine and hand-shaped shale spoil-heaps, dug in a region of agricultural terraces, extensive rig & furrow, and now recent industry (BAE Systems gun testing range). The small native farmstead (just right of centre) shows remains of stone-built round houses inside.
There is a 3D lidar landscape of this area here: https://skfb.ly/pnoXD Corbridge Roman Town, Northumberland.
The remains at Corbridge are largely those of a Roman town, 2½ miles south of Hadrian's Wall, which developed after AD 160 around a base for legionary soldiers. This replaced a succession of forts on the site, built from about AD 85 where one of the main routes northwards crossed the River Tyne. Corbridge became one of only two substantial towns in the Hadrian's Wall zone and remained a vibrant urban community until the last days of Roman Britain. English Heritage: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/.../corbridge-roman... Medieval farmstead, 450m north east of Berry Hills, Northumberland.
A Scheduled Monument includes the remains of a farmstead of medieval date situated on the end of a promontory formed by the confluence of the Ferneyrigg Burn and the River Wansbeck. The farmstead is visible as two sub-rectangular contiguous enclosures and a third, irregularly shaped enclosure. All are very well preserved. A Bronze Age round cairn (also scheduled) close to the NE enclosure and a small area of cord rig seen from the air attest to earlier use of the site. The enclosures are surrounded and partially overlaid by broad rig & furrow ploughing. https://historicengland.org.uk/.../the.../list-entry/1008436 Not described in the listing is the raised bank between the two eastern enclosures which appears to be divided into very short W-E riggs, perhaps lazy beds or even a pillow mound for a rabbit warren. https://historicengland.org.uk/.../aeria.../record/20932_039  LIDAR (DSM, 1m) © Environment Agency - enhanced for archaeology. Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne
An area of open pastureland just to the north of the City Centre, surrounded by built-up land, established as common land in the 13th century. It contains Prehistoric enclosures, agricultural field systems, industrial workings, military and leisure use sites. The features visible can be split into the categories: Agriculture- medieval broad ridge and furrow and later narrow rig field systems, old allotment gardens and modern features associated with the continued use of the moor for cattle grazing, such as water troughs and pens. Access and road ways- medieval trackways, turnpikes, Victorian and later trackways and the development of new roads including the huge spoilheaps from the construction of the Central motorway. Mining- medieval and later shaft mines, areas of mining related subsidence, clay pits, 19th century collieries and 20th century wartime opencast. Leisure- golf course, 18th century horse race course, sites of exhibitions and fairgrounds, parks and gardens. Military- barracks, and sites relating to World War Two such as a prisoner-of-war camp, an isolation hospital, trenches, pill boxes and stoplines. Possible prehistoric - possible earthwork settlement and a cropmark Romano-British enclosure. Historic England: 1029439 Some WW2 remains from a LIDAR survey of the Town Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first image is DTM LIDAR shows ditches around huts of an Italian POW camp along with zig-zag trenches in the same field. Are these second war defences associated with the WW2 POW camp, or earlier 'practice' trenches from WW1? The second image is the same area in a satellite image from Google Earth showing a fairground encamped on the same field. Other images show a larger area in DSM LIDAR (with a few more faint trenches in an area N of the road) and another ditches remaining from two rows of nissen huts associated with the nearby barracks. Bellshiel Neolithic Long Cairn, Northumberland.
A Long Cairn occupies the crest of a narrow ridge in open moorland (fenced after scheduling) at about 300m above sea level. Orientated at an angle of 279 degrees, it is partially earth covered on the north side. It has a maximum height of 1.6m, length of 109m, and varies in breadth between 15m in the east and 8.8m in the west. The cairn was excavated in 1935 when a possible cist and a rock cut grave were found and cup marked stones noted nearby (later described only as water-worn depressions). Little was found and the excavator called the mound a 'monster of degeneracy'. It was not possible to date it securely to the Neolithic period. A stone-walled enclosure attached to the S side of the cairn is a later feature re-using stones from the cairn. Long cairns are the burial places of Britain's early farming communities and, as such, are amongst the oldest field monuments surviving visibly in the present landscape. Where investigated, they appear to have been used for communal burial, often with only parts of the human remains having been selected for interment. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5363312  LIDAR (DSM, 1m) copyright Environment Agency (2022) - enhanced for archaeology. Deserted medieval village of Hartside, Ingram, Northumberland.
Remains of what must once have been quite a substantial settlement in the 13th and 14th centuries. The main concentration of the settlement is situated at 275 m OD, on a gentle SE-facing slope, and comprises about 15 rectangular steadings and garths marked by turf-covered wall footings. The whole is clearly associated with a widespread pattern of medieval (or later) cultivation terraces, rig and furrow, fragmentary field walls and stone clearance heaps. The houses measure c.12m-15m by 4m-5m with garths c.17m wide by 25m long. There is a small circular corn drying kiln at east end of village. Today, nobody lives as high or cultivates the land here, and the only upstanding remains are those of a sheepfold (stell). K2P: N1269 Scheduled Monument: 1006483 Geograph: www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/7779 |
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