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
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
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