Series: Northern Counties Archaeological Services unpublished report series

Watching Brief and recording during landscaping works within the fort area. and adjacent to the Riverside Battery. The remains of an 18th century Fort building - the Master Gunner's House - was exposed, and part of the Cable Tanks and tramway belonging to the late 19th century Submarine Mining Depot phase of the Fort's use were also revealed.

This is a report on fieldwork carried out between 2009 and 2015 as part of the Flodden500 Project (Battle of Flodden, 9th September 1513), the Project's Archaeological Manager being unable to undertake the reporting due to serious illness. The report describes the results of excavations, test pitting, fieldwalking and metal-detecting on the site of the supposed Scottish army's camp on Flodden Hill, and on the presumed battlefield to the north.

As part of investigation into the feasibility of providing toilet/washroom facilities within the Vicar's Pele, a 2m x 2m test pit was excavated in the south-west corner of the vaulted basement of the tower to establish the depth of foundations and if any earlier floor surfaces or other archaeological deposits and features survived. The test pit was excavated to a depth of 1.1m as specified by the client's architect, being the maximum depth at which the fall on any new waste pipe could connect to an existing external sewer. The test pit showed that ground level within the Pele had been significantly raised in later 19th and/or early 20th century with imported demolition rubble. In the test pit area, any earlier floor, features or deposits had been destroyed by a pit which extended down into the natural subsoil below the required depth of excavation. A small quantity of residual late 13th-14th century pottery was recovered.