Domestic settlement of Late Iron Age or Romano-British period. (1)

'A searchlight stood within the earthwork during the 1914-18 war, but I believe the feature itself is quite old'. (2)

NZ 1784 8362. An earthwork situated on level pastureland. The work consists of a double concentric rampart with slight medial ditch and traces of an outer ditch on the north west flank. Both ramparts have individual average widths of 6m and vary in height from 0.2-1.3m the medial ditch has an average width of 4.5m and a max depth of 0.4m. The outer ditch is slight, being 4.5m-5m wide but only 0.1m-0.2m in depth, this ditch slowly dies away to the north of the earthwork.
There is a simple entrance to the north east through the ramparts. North of this entrance a slight outer bank may mark the remains of an original outer entrance defence. There is also a causewayed entrance in the south east flank, a modern cart track crosses the earthwork at this point, and the entrance may itself be modern. At the causeway both ramparts have been destroyed.
There is no internal surface indication of occupation in the form of huts, the ground being very broken, doubtless as a result of the construction mentioned T.2. There is an adequate water supply adjacent to the site. The earthwork is not suitably constructed or topographically positioned for defensive purposes, and its use was probably pastoral/stock.
Insufficient evidence as yet discovered for positive dating as in T.1., 'though, by comparison with other Northumbrian sites, the work is possibly Romano-native in date.
Adjacent to the earthwork, to the east and west are lateral ditches running north-south, they appear to be drainage ditches and to have no archaeological significance.
The site is threatened by immediate destruction owing to open cast mining. (3)

The greater part of the earthwork has now been destroyed by open cast mining. The surviving remains are ill defined and unintelligible and do not merit survey action. (4)

Rescue excavations prior to open-cast mining were carried out in 1956. Two low concentric banks and a medial ditch enclosing an area of approximately 3/4 of an acre were visible on the ground. There was a possible entrance to the north, and a small mound to the west of this entrance.
A section across the enclosure banks and ditches showed two shallow, round-bottomed ditches, and the remains of a medial and inner rampart, both of fairly compact clay formed from the ditch upcast. The maximum depth of the ditch was no more than 3ft.
Three internal pits contained sherds of native degenerate Iron Age pottery; a scrap of Samian and a rim of late 1st or early 2nd century coarse ware, together with a pounding stone. North of the pits was the site of a hut about 20ft diameter ringed by a shallow gully filled with grey clayey silt.
Within the area outlined by the gully there was sufficient evidence to suggest that there had been at least a stone wall to the hut, the entrance to which was on the east. Numerous sherds of native pottery were found in the occupation earth, also the upper stone of a rotary quern, and a small fragment of 1st century glass. The most substantial stonework on the site was a crescent-shaped area of paving overlaying cobbling and a thin band of occupation earth. Incorporated in the paving was part of the lower stone of a rotary quern. The sites of two further huts were not examined.
On the evidence of the pottery and glass fragment it appears that the site was occupied in the 2nd century, but from the small amount of excavation it would be premature to suggest that the ditches and clay ramparts formed the first enclosure on the site. (5)

Site now under pasture. As stated by F2, the greater part of the earthwork has been destroyed by open cast mining, and the remaining traces, on the north side, do not merit survey action. (6)

NZ 178836. 'Camp Field'. (7)

The site is now visible as a series of cropmarks located south-east of the crossroads. The roughly rectangular enclosure cropmarks survives as a series of three half-rectangle ditches, widely and loosely separated. The site is shown in Google Earth aerial photography accessed in November 2013, but of individual photographs taken 31 December 2002. (8)

Air photographs taken in 1999 show the northern half of the main enclosure showing as cropmarks and centred at NZ 1784 8365. Three concentric ditches are partially visible, in between which the ramparts presumably lay. A further ditch is visible just to the north-west centred at NZ 1777 8366. (9a)