In the village of Netherton, there are numerous mounds, hollow ways and intrenchment. (1)

Inequalities and knolls on the margins of the Wreighburn above the village of Netherton, and where the Alnwick turnpike crosses, consist of boulder clay and gravel and are not artificial. (2)

Areas centred NT 98530772 and NT 98580758. The ground disturbances referred to by authorities (1) and (2) are the results of old quarrying and water erosion and there is no evidence to associate them with depopulation or any antiquity. Neither is there any local tradition of Netherton having been a larger village. (3)

'A' NT 98500770. Within the disturbed area is a small earthwork of most unusual form. It consists of a wide deep ditch enclosing a circular area only 6m in diameter. Spoil from the ditch has been used to form an outer bank. The ditch is shallower on the north side, suggestive of a causewayed entrance. A flat-topped central mound 1.5m high shows no traces of occupation. An old water course on the north side and the reedy bottom of the encircling ditch indicates that the latter has at one time been water filled.
The origin or purpose of this earthwork could not be ascertained. It may have been an unusual type of fish pond or even a folly although there is no big house in the vicinity with which it could be associated. The completeness of the work in an area probably subject to flooding does not suggest a very great age. (4)

This does not resemble any earthwork previously encountered. It is known locally as a cockpit, but this seems unlikely in view of the water-filled ditch. Surveyed at 1:2500. (5)

The cockpit is attributed by Dixon to lie 'on the south side of the burn opposite the village'. A circular earthwork at NT 985076 closely resembles a cockpit in plan but is doubtful because of the overall dimensions and depth of the ditch. (6)

Circular feature visible on infra-red imagery. (7)