Hazleton Rig Prehistoric Settlement (Alnham)
NT 964113: A single unenclosed house within a sub-rectangular field enclosure was located on air photographs and confirmed by ground survey at Hazeltonrigg Hill. Surveyed at 1:500. (1)
NT 964113. Hazeltonrig Hill 2, listed as an unenclosed round house and illustrated. (2)
NT 9640 1132. On a gentle NE-facing moorland slope at about 350 m OD, is a solitary hut circle [NT 9611/32] within a contemporary sub-rectangular field [NT 9611/33]. The hut circle is well-preserved, measuring 9.9 m ENE-WSW by 8.7 m transversely within a wall now turf-covered and spread to a width of 1.5 m. The inner wall face survives as an intermittent line of boulders, both in situ and displaced; the outer face can be identified in one or two places indicating an original wall width of about 1.2 m at ground level. The only gap in the wall, presumably the entrance, is in the ENE. The field is demarcated by a turf-covered stony bank, 2.0 m across and 0.3 m high; the NE side is lost in an area of later drainage channels, but it seems unlikely to have extended further to the NE than is indicated on the plan suggesting an area of about 0.63 hectares. There is now no trace of cultivation within the field, but immediately to the N is a group of at least four clearance cairns [NT 9611/34], from 3.0 m in diameter and 0.3 m high to 8.0 m by 4.5 m and 0.4 m high, which are probably contemporary. (3a)
NT 964113. Hazeltonrig Hill 2, listed as an unenclosed round house and illustrated. (2)
NT 9640 1132. On a gentle NE-facing moorland slope at about 350 m OD, is a solitary hut circle [NT 9611/32] within a contemporary sub-rectangular field [NT 9611/33]. The hut circle is well-preserved, measuring 9.9 m ENE-WSW by 8.7 m transversely within a wall now turf-covered and spread to a width of 1.5 m. The inner wall face survives as an intermittent line of boulders, both in situ and displaced; the outer face can be identified in one or two places indicating an original wall width of about 1.2 m at ground level. The only gap in the wall, presumably the entrance, is in the ENE. The field is demarcated by a turf-covered stony bank, 2.0 m across and 0.3 m high; the NE side is lost in an area of later drainage channels, but it seems unlikely to have extended further to the NE than is indicated on the plan suggesting an area of about 0.63 hectares. There is now no trace of cultivation within the field, but immediately to the N is a group of at least four clearance cairns [NT 9611/34], from 3.0 m in diameter and 0.3 m high to 8.0 m by 4.5 m and 0.4 m high, which are probably contemporary. (3a)
N1357
Later Prehistoric (4000BC to 43AD)
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FIELD SURVEY, Field Survey in Northumberland 1979
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
HISTORIC AREA ASSESSMENT, Alnham Village Atlas ; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
HISTORIC AREA ASSESSMENT, Alnham Village Atlas ; The Archaeological Practice Ltd
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