Roman period enclosure, East Greenleighton (Rothley with Hollinghill)
(NZ 02739364 Geographical co-ords). East Greenleighton (Dodd House). Rectangular earthwork with single rampart, enclosing approximately 3/4 acre. (1)
About 400 yards to the east (NZ 09 SW 4), and nearly south of the Doddhouse is another camp, partly oval, 57 yards by 20, with a ditch 15 feet wide at the top. (2)
(Shown as a small circular earthwork). (3)
NZ 02739367. This earthwork is situated on a gentle north east slope at the south edge of the steep valley of the Fallowlees Burn and about 780 feet above sea level. The siting is not defensive, there being dead ground to the immediate west and south. The north side of the earthwork is bounded by the steep (approximately 1:3) slopes of the valley.
In shape the earthwork is an irregular hexagon and is bounded by a ditch with traces of an inner and counterscarp bank. There is a central causewayed entrance on the east side; a suggestion of a causeway to the south west, and a modern gap, through which the footpath passes, to the west. There are no indications of internal occupation the site showing traces of having been ploughed over. (4)
Listed under rectilinear sites but unclassified. (5)
Native settlement. (6)
The earthwork has no defensive purpose, and this fact together with the form (more sub-rectangular than hexagonal), and an east-facing entrance appears to place it in the broad context of minor native domestic enclosures. Surveyed at 1:2500. (7)
This enclosure is formed by a residual bank with a comparatively broad outer ditch. On plan the site is polygonal rather than strictly rectilinear for, while the north and south sides are straight, the west side is bowed outwards. The east side is defined by two more or less straight lengths of ditch which come together at a shallow angle on either side of what seems likely to have been the original entrance. The whole site has been incorporated into an 18th century field enclosure within which narrow rig has obliterated any surface traces of contemporary habitation which may once have existed.
The site was first noted by Hodgson (1827, 289) and has been listed both by Hogg (1947, 169) and by Jobey (1960, p.112, site 37) who gives it as a rectilinear site of unclassified type. While its status as a settlement cannot be proved, the site is most likely to be of Iron Age or Roman date. (8)
About 400 yards to the east (NZ 09 SW 4), and nearly south of the Doddhouse is another camp, partly oval, 57 yards by 20, with a ditch 15 feet wide at the top. (2)
(Shown as a small circular earthwork). (3)
NZ 02739367. This earthwork is situated on a gentle north east slope at the south edge of the steep valley of the Fallowlees Burn and about 780 feet above sea level. The siting is not defensive, there being dead ground to the immediate west and south. The north side of the earthwork is bounded by the steep (approximately 1:3) slopes of the valley.
In shape the earthwork is an irregular hexagon and is bounded by a ditch with traces of an inner and counterscarp bank. There is a central causewayed entrance on the east side; a suggestion of a causeway to the south west, and a modern gap, through which the footpath passes, to the west. There are no indications of internal occupation the site showing traces of having been ploughed over. (4)
Listed under rectilinear sites but unclassified. (5)
Native settlement. (6)
The earthwork has no defensive purpose, and this fact together with the form (more sub-rectangular than hexagonal), and an east-facing entrance appears to place it in the broad context of minor native domestic enclosures. Surveyed at 1:2500. (7)
This enclosure is formed by a residual bank with a comparatively broad outer ditch. On plan the site is polygonal rather than strictly rectilinear for, while the north and south sides are straight, the west side is bowed outwards. The east side is defined by two more or less straight lengths of ditch which come together at a shallow angle on either side of what seems likely to have been the original entrance. The whole site has been incorporated into an 18th century field enclosure within which narrow rig has obliterated any surface traces of contemporary habitation which may once have existed.
The site was first noted by Hodgson (1827, 289) and has been listed both by Hogg (1947, 169) and by Jobey (1960, p.112, site 37) who gives it as a rectilinear site of unclassified type. While its status as a settlement cannot be proved, the site is most likely to be of Iron Age or Roman date. (8)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; E Geary
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
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