HUT CIRCLE, WARK
Description:
An area about 1200m east/west by 800m north/south (centred NY 793773) containing about some 32 circular enclosures. (1)
NY 793773 An area of undulating hilly rough pasture land which has been deep ploughed and afforested. The circular enclosures are stack stands and are still discernible, some as low banks most mainly as lighter green grassy areas, but the ploughing and planting has destroyed or heavily mutilated most of them and none are now worthy of survey action.
(Delineated on 1:10,000 Record Sheet only). (2)
NY 793774. Unclassified enclosures, hut circles, visible on aerial photographs. (3)
Shiela Hill/ Blackaburn. Long earthwork bank with attached rectangular enclosures/structures? (4)
Site status: NATIONAL PARK
Country: England
County: Northumberland
District: TYNEDALE
Parish: WARK
Named Location: HUT CIRCLE, WARK
Grid Reference:
NY793773
NY793774
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 379300, 577300
[EPSG:27700] 379300, 577400
Period: POST MEDIEVAL, UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN
Subject: EARTHWORK, PEAT STAND, EARTHWORK, HUT CIRCLE, EARTHWORK, ENCLOSURE
Identifiers:
[ADS] Depositor Id: 6927
[ADS] Import RCN: NSMR03-6927
People Involved:
[Publisher] Conservation Team, Northumberland County Council
Bibliographic References:
- Field Res Group Soc Antiq Newcastle upon Tyne (3)
- Northern Archaeological Survey, 1975. Archaeology in the North: gazetteer (Durham), (107) (3)
- F1 ISS 19-JUL-1979 (2)
- Pers Comm, B Long (4)
- AP's (OS 75 096 136-137 17 5 75) (1)
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