'NZ 011633' Thornbrough Scar. Crop mark of a single-ditched sub-rectangular enclosure set back some 100yds from the edge of the scar which rises above the left bank of the Tyne, at a height of c.200ft.

(Listed under rectangular enclosures some of which are likely to fall into the pattern of Romano-British settlements). (1) (2)

Nothing is visible on the ground, and little can be inferred from the crop mark (NZ 010632). (3)

Excavated in 1983. Resistivity survey also carried out over 315m square: designed to establish the line of the ditch in the south west quadrant of the enclosure.
Excavation revealed two phases of structures:
(i) postholes and house trenches from at least six houses with a minimum of three structural phases. Native pottery and an unused rotary quernstone recovered.
(ii) extensive area of cobbling, with 13 sherds of native pottery. Possible stone house walls.
Ditch recut once. Structures well-preserved, representing a minimum of four phases of
building, the latest provisionally dated to 2nd century AD. (4)

Four phases of structures revealed. Three earliest represented by post holes and trenches of at least six houses. The fourth phase had extensive cobbling and two 2nd century pottery sherds. (5)

Rectilinear enclosure excavated Sept 1983. Summary. (6)

Excavation to take soil samples from ditch fill and internal features. (Summary of excavation in 1983). (7)

Draft of 1983 excavations heldin the HER parish file for Corbridge. (8)