Archaeol North 18

Note on the discovery of a group of objects including pieces of articulated Roman armour found during excavations on Castle Green and Castle Way, Carlisle.

Article on a project set up by the Northumberland National Park Authority to address key issues relating to the conservation, research and public interpretation of hillforts and the related prehistoric landscape of the Cheviot Hills.

Note on ongoing survey and excavation work at Bollihope Common, the long-term aim of which is to reconstruct the land-use and settlement history of the area. Structures identified so far include enclosures, hut circles and platforms, charcoal burning platforms, lead and iron smelting sites, possible small coal pits and small cairns. Lead and iron slag and bowl-like furnace bottoms have also been recorded. A long house with apparently bowed sides was recorded inside a nineteenth-century, stone built enclosure known as Pegg's House. A possible round house and a horse-shoe shaped enclosure were excavated.

Notes on a vernacular buildings survey carried out in 2000 of the hamlet of Low Wray, including a mid-nineteenth-century planned farmstead comprising a farmhouse and several purpose-built farm buildings.