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Bolam Low House (Belsay)

[NZ 08088160] Camp. (1)

A rectangular earthwork, 128ft north-south, 121ft east-west, defined by a ditch on all four sides with a centrally placed entrance in the east, but no visible evidence of internal occupation. (2)

'Bolam Low House'. Single rampart. [Listed under Native Sites in Northumberland]. (3)

The remains of a sub-rectangular ditched enclosure mutilated by a modern drainage channel in the west, and reduced to a superficial depression in the south. It is unclassified by Jobey, but resembles his type 'C' (homesteads consisting of one or two huts within a rectangular enclosure expected to have been occupied at some stage of the Roman period). Published survey (25 inch) revised. (4)

Damaged in medieval times. Entrance in east. Area 0.14ha. (5)

Cropmark of rectilinear enclosure, Bolam Low House. (6)

NZ 078815. Rectangular enclosure visible on aerial photographs. [NGR incorrect, refers to site described above]. (7)
N10572
Roman (43 to 410)
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; B H Pritchard


Source of Reference
Local History of Belsay

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