West Gunnar Crag (Chollerton)
(NY 91407490) During excavation, in 1880, of the Romano-British settlement on Gunnar Peak (NY 97 SW 13/HER 9284) Rome Hall found remains of an 'earlier wall' below the south west corner of the enclosure, which he presumed to be part of the rampart of an Iron Age promontory fort. He also noted 'oval and circular depressions', apparently huts, north of the enclosure. (1)
The wall was rediscovered by Hogg in 1941, who also located it beneath the entrance to the enclosure, and again as a 'mass of rubble' in a section some distance west, where also was found a flint scraper, cup-marked stone and Roman sherd. Associated huts were found abutting the wall at NY 91387498, and NY 91397490. Part of Rome Hall's postulated rampart to the east was dismissed by Hogg as a lynchet. (See plan attached to NY 97 SW 13). (2)
The site is suitable for a promontory fort, but the visible evidence is confined to a fragment of very weak bank, and vague traces of the 'abutting huts' at NY 91367489. Hogg's dismissal of the eastern part of the 'rampart' as a lynchet is justified. Surveyed at 1/2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Westernmost of three settlement on Gunnerton Crags. Contains foundations of five huts and one (later?) rectangular building. An enclosed yard visible on north side of entrance. (5)
A cup marked stone found among walling stones of a rectangular building at Gunnar Peak Camp. Stone measured 10-1/2ins x 7-1/2ins x 3ins with five cups on side and three on the other. The cups measured 1ins-2ins diameter. Stone now lost. (6)(7)
NY 915 749. West Gunnar Peak (or Crags). Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 1.6ha. (8a)
NY 915 749. Gunnerton Crag camps. Scheduled No ND/275. (8b)
The wall was rediscovered by Hogg in 1941, who also located it beneath the entrance to the enclosure, and again as a 'mass of rubble' in a section some distance west, where also was found a flint scraper, cup-marked stone and Roman sherd. Associated huts were found abutting the wall at NY 91387498, and NY 91397490. Part of Rome Hall's postulated rampart to the east was dismissed by Hogg as a lynchet. (See plan attached to NY 97 SW 13). (2)
The site is suitable for a promontory fort, but the visible evidence is confined to a fragment of very weak bank, and vague traces of the 'abutting huts' at NY 91367489. Hogg's dismissal of the eastern part of the 'rampart' as a lynchet is justified. Surveyed at 1/2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Westernmost of three settlement on Gunnerton Crags. Contains foundations of five huts and one (later?) rectangular building. An enclosed yard visible on north side of entrance. (5)
A cup marked stone found among walling stones of a rectangular building at Gunnar Peak Camp. Stone measured 10-1/2ins x 7-1/2ins x 3ins with five cups on side and three on the other. The cups measured 1ins-2ins diameter. Stone now lost. (6)(7)
NY 915 749. West Gunnar Peak (or Crags). Listed in gazetteer as a univallate hillfort covering 1.6ha. (8a)
NY 915 749. Gunnerton Crag camps. Scheduled No ND/275. (8b)
N9285
EXCAVATION, Gunnar Peak 1880; HALL, G R
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1962; E G Cameron
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; R W Emsley
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1962; E G Cameron
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; R W Emsley
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