Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5

Further work on pottery recovered from domestic-type pits during evaluation trenching in 1992 has shown it to be Neolithic rather than Iron Age as previously thought. The pottery was Grimston Ware -- the earliest pottery tradition known in Britain -- and Late Neolithic Meldon Bridge Ware, and along with the pits and associated gully and postholes suggests this was an area of Neolithic settlement. Includes a referenced list of `Neolithic pottery sites in Northumberland'.

Re-examines historical and archaeological evidence for the dating of various aspects of Hadrian's Wall.

Discusses the possibility of a sacred function for this rectangular building with an eastern annex, with reference to analogous structures at Yeavering and Cowdery's Down.

Summarises an architectural and archaeological analysis of the eastern arm of the church, undertaken as part a wider condition survey and renovation undertaken during 1996--97. Includes a discussion of earlier conservation works.

The practice of heating garden walls was first recorded in the early-eighteenth century, and was developed in order to provide warmer growing conditions for more tender plants. The need for urgent repairs on the `hot-walls' at Belsay caused English Heritage to commission this report on the structure of the walls and their significance in relation to the estate as a whole.