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High Close House West enclosure cropmark (Wylam)

'NZ 118658' High Close House West. Crop mark of a single-ditched rectangular enclosure with rounded corners and an east-facing entrance. The sides measure between 150ft and 200ft. Situated c.200yds west of High Close House at an altitude of 200ft. (Listed under rectangular enclosures some of which are likely to fall into the pattern of Romano-British rectilinear settlements.) (1-2)

Nothing visible on the ground, but the crop mark is consistent with that of a rectilinear type native domestic enclosure (NZ 11826572). (3)

Iron Age or Roman rectilinear enclosure is visible as cropmarks on air photographs, centred at NZ 1180 6574. The ditched enclosure (55 x 58 metres) has an entrance on its eastern side. Also on its eastern side is a possible small (20 metres wide) enclosure, with only three sides visible. (4)
N10877
Roman (43 to 410)
Iron Age (800BC to 43AD)
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage


Source of Reference
Local History of Wylam

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