Bronze Age barrow (Stamfordham)
(NZ 07747048) Tumulus. (1)
A tumulus with two cists containing primary and secondary inhumations. The secondary may have included and urn (now lost), which was apparently of the beaker type.
An incised cup-marked stone from the mound was presented to the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle by Mr E F Riddell Blount, Cheeseburn Grange. (2)
A much ploughed-down round barrow, approximately 0.5m high, now turf-covered. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Barrow with two cists. Cup mark noted on centre of inner face of southern side stone of secondary cist; cup mark 11/2ins diameter x 3/4in deep. Cist cover also reported to have had cups at each angle. Stone in Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. (5)
Ouston, Pike HillH00749NZ 07747048
Three feet from this distubed cist lay what was probably the cist cover, described as an irregular heart-shaped rock 24 x 21x 5 in (0.61 x 0.53 x 0.13m). The design was an irregular trapezoid with a cup at each angle, and two cup marks are outside the figure but have no apparent relationship to it. The markings are well and deeply cut and in some places show the rough pick marks of the first opperation of incision but are generally smoothed by grinding. The description shows that the design on the cist cover was probably facing into the cist. What is on the stone does not quite tally with the description, for the pick marks show no signs of being smoothed. The motifs on this stone are clearly made to fir the shape and size of the stone. They are pristine, and therefore the rock has not been exposed to any errosion (i.e. it was burried). The location suggests that it was specifically made for the cist of an early Bronze Age burial. There are four deeply pecked cups that form a square. They are linked by wide, pecked, straight grooves on three sides and the fourth by a slightly curved groove. The interior of this motif appears to be square with rounded corners. A deep cut lies between a corner cup and the edge, with very faint pecking that may have been intended to link the two. There are other pick marks between the central motif and the edge, including two faint cups. On the other side there is a long groove and a large cup, with more scattered faint pick marks. The quality of the pecking is outstanding.
(6a)
A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on air photographs at NZ 0773 7048. It measures 17m by 19m and is extant (but much denuded) in the latest 1958 RAF vertical photography. (6b)
A tumulus with two cists containing primary and secondary inhumations. The secondary may have included and urn (now lost), which was apparently of the beaker type.
An incised cup-marked stone from the mound was presented to the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle by Mr E F Riddell Blount, Cheeseburn Grange. (2)
A much ploughed-down round barrow, approximately 0.5m high, now turf-covered. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Barrow with two cists. Cup mark noted on centre of inner face of southern side stone of secondary cist; cup mark 11/2ins diameter x 3/4in deep. Cist cover also reported to have had cups at each angle. Stone in Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. (5)
Ouston, Pike HillH00749NZ 07747048
Three feet from this distubed cist lay what was probably the cist cover, described as an irregular heart-shaped rock 24 x 21x 5 in (0.61 x 0.53 x 0.13m). The design was an irregular trapezoid with a cup at each angle, and two cup marks are outside the figure but have no apparent relationship to it. The markings are well and deeply cut and in some places show the rough pick marks of the first opperation of incision but are generally smoothed by grinding. The description shows that the design on the cist cover was probably facing into the cist. What is on the stone does not quite tally with the description, for the pick marks show no signs of being smoothed. The motifs on this stone are clearly made to fir the shape and size of the stone. They are pristine, and therefore the rock has not been exposed to any errosion (i.e. it was burried). The location suggests that it was specifically made for the cist of an early Bronze Age burial. There are four deeply pecked cups that form a square. They are linked by wide, pecked, straight grooves on three sides and the fourth by a slightly curved groove. The interior of this motif appears to be square with rounded corners. A deep cut lies between a corner cup and the edge, with very faint pecking that may have been intended to link the two. There are other pick marks between the central motif and the edge, including two faint cups. On the other side there is a long groove and a large cup, with more scattered faint pick marks. The quality of the pecking is outstanding.
(6a)
A Bronze Age round barrow is visible as an earthwork on air photographs at NZ 0773 7048. It measures 17m by 19m and is extant (but much denuded) in the latest 1958 RAF vertical photography. (6b)
N10363
EXCAVATION, PIKE HILL/OUSTON NORTH FARM 1926; HEDLEY, R C
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1961; W D Johnston
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; B H Pritchard
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1961; W D Johnston
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; B H Pritchard
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
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