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Uplaw Knowe palisaded settlement (Netherton with Biddlestone)

NT 914 087: An egg-shaped, timber built, palisaded settlement containing the remains of two round houses of 'ring groove' type was discovered by air photography in 1980. The round houses were 14m and 13.5m in diameter. Surveyed at 1:500. (1)

Uplaw Knowe palisaded settlement, scheduled monument Northum 650. Palisaded settlements are the only evidence for domestic settlement for the first half of the first millennium BC in northern England and there were less than fifty known examples in England in 1983. This example is a very slight earthwork site situated in an upland area with much evidence of prehistoric activity. In brief, the monument is important for its period, rarity, fragility and association with other monuments and archaeological potential. (2)

NT 914 087. Uplaw Knowe unenclosed site with ring-ditch houses and later cord rig in small plot cultivation. (3)
N1070
Iron Age (800BC to 43AD)
Scheduled Ancient Monument
FIELD SURVEY, Field Survey in Northumberland 1981
FIELD SURVEY, KIDLANDLEE DEAN ; Durham University


Source of Reference
Local History of Netherton with Biddlestone
Local History of Netherton with Biddlestone

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