Enclosure at East Coldside Farm (Mitford)
(Centred NZ 16238447) Crop Mark. Enclosure. (1)
'This field although now in pasture has been under crop many times. I have made no finds when ploughing'. (Refers to the field in which the larger part of the crop mark is situated. (2)
There are no surface indications of the crop mark in the field referred to in (2). The smaller field to the north east is in permanent pasture and the crop mark is visible as a wide ditch. Of triangular shape (the hedge completing the third side) the ditch has an average width of 11m between tops of bank, a maximum depth of 0.7m below the top of the outer bank, and 0.3m below the top of inner bank. (3)
The site is rectilinear, shaped somewhat like a truncated cone, and has fairly sharp corners. Two fields on the farm of East Coldside used to be named 'Harestanes', but these have not been located with certainty. (Listed under single-ditched crop-mark enclosures, some of which are likely to fall into the pattern of Romano-British rectilinear settlements). (4)
Little can be inferred from the photograph concerning the nature of the enclosure, and the remains of the north east angle noted by F1 are little help in interpretation. These comprise a triangular depression (rather than a ditch), which has been used as a drainage sink. (5)
'This field although now in pasture has been under crop many times. I have made no finds when ploughing'. (Refers to the field in which the larger part of the crop mark is situated. (2)
There are no surface indications of the crop mark in the field referred to in (2). The smaller field to the north east is in permanent pasture and the crop mark is visible as a wide ditch. Of triangular shape (the hedge completing the third side) the ditch has an average width of 11m between tops of bank, a maximum depth of 0.7m below the top of the outer bank, and 0.3m below the top of inner bank. (3)
The site is rectilinear, shaped somewhat like a truncated cone, and has fairly sharp corners. Two fields on the farm of East Coldside used to be named 'Harestanes', but these have not been located with certainty. (Listed under single-ditched crop-mark enclosures, some of which are likely to fall into the pattern of Romano-British rectilinear settlements). (4)
Little can be inferred from the photograph concerning the nature of the enclosure, and the remains of the north east angle noted by F1 are little help in interpretation. These comprise a triangular depression (rather than a ditch), which has been used as a drainage sink. (5)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1954; E Geary
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD SURVEY, Rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
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