Seghill Moor House (Seaton Valley)
NZ 274748 Annitsford North. A rectilinear, crop-mark enclosure, single-ditched with sides about 150ft long. It has slightly rounded corners, an east facing entrance, and is comparable in size, shape and general situation with the type of Romano-British native settlement prevalent farther west. Nothing visible on the ground. (1)
At the side of a stream with the ground rising to north and south. An unusual position for a native settlement. No trace. (2)
Situated at 150ft OD, north of Seaton Burn. (3)
Square enclosure visible on aerial photographs. (4)(5)(6)
The site of Seghill Moor House, a 19th century building with an enclosure, is believed to have been located in this area (c.NZ 27357487). Its likely site is probably a hummocky scrub area within arable land north of Seaton Burn.
The house is depicted on Greenwood's map of 1828 as a building with an associated rectilinear enclosure on the north side. The enclosure also appears as a two-sided feature on the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1868 and other enclosures are depicted on the Seghill tithe and later Ordnance Survey maps. The boundaries could potentially survive as cropmarks. (7)
This rectilinear enclosure with wrap around annex and internal round house is visible as a cropmark and soilmark on historical vertical air photos and on recent specialist oblique air photos. The enclosure measures approximately 46x38m and defined by a ditch, and external bank and traces of an inner bank along the southern side. An entrance in its eastern side opens out into the annex that wraps around the eastern and southern sides of the enclosure. At the centre of the enclosure there is a small subcircular enclosure that may be the drIp gully of a round house, diameter 8m and within that a central pit. These features are likely to be Iron Age or early Roman in date.
This feature lies to the north of Seghill Moor House, as it is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864. However, to clarify on the observations above made from source 7, the enclosure described above does not correlate with the 2-sides of an enclosure depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864.
Many of the air photos also show a perpendicular arrangement of ditches around this enclosure. These all correspond with field boundaries that are depicted on the 1864 and so have not been mapped by this project. (8) (9) (10)
Geophysical survey in 2022 revelaed evidence for the remains of two ditches on the southern, western and northern sides of the enclosure. Curvilinear anomalies in the interior are probably remains of a round house. Other anomalies probably reflect pits, postholes, hearths and general occupation debris. Weaker anomalies to the east may represent associated paddocks. (11)
At the side of a stream with the ground rising to north and south. An unusual position for a native settlement. No trace. (2)
Situated at 150ft OD, north of Seaton Burn. (3)
Square enclosure visible on aerial photographs. (4)(5)(6)
The site of Seghill Moor House, a 19th century building with an enclosure, is believed to have been located in this area (c.NZ 27357487). Its likely site is probably a hummocky scrub area within arable land north of Seaton Burn.
The house is depicted on Greenwood's map of 1828 as a building with an associated rectilinear enclosure on the north side. The enclosure also appears as a two-sided feature on the first edition Ordnance Survey of 1868 and other enclosures are depicted on the Seghill tithe and later Ordnance Survey maps. The boundaries could potentially survive as cropmarks. (7)
This rectilinear enclosure with wrap around annex and internal round house is visible as a cropmark and soilmark on historical vertical air photos and on recent specialist oblique air photos. The enclosure measures approximately 46x38m and defined by a ditch, and external bank and traces of an inner bank along the southern side. An entrance in its eastern side opens out into the annex that wraps around the eastern and southern sides of the enclosure. At the centre of the enclosure there is a small subcircular enclosure that may be the drIp gully of a round house, diameter 8m and within that a central pit. These features are likely to be Iron Age or early Roman in date.
This feature lies to the north of Seghill Moor House, as it is depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864. However, to clarify on the observations above made from source 7, the enclosure described above does not correlate with the 2-sides of an enclosure depicted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864.
Many of the air photos also show a perpendicular arrangement of ditches around this enclosure. These all correspond with field boundaries that are depicted on the 1864 and so have not been mapped by this project. (8) (9) (10)
Geophysical survey in 2022 revelaed evidence for the remains of two ditches on the southern, western and northern sides of the enclosure. Curvilinear anomalies in the interior are probably remains of a round house. Other anomalies probably reflect pits, postholes, hearths and general occupation debris. Weaker anomalies to the east may represent associated paddocks. (11)
N11519
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; D Smith
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, South East Cramlington Strategic Employment Site: Preliminary Archaeological Assessment 1997; The Archaeological Practice
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, Middle Farm ; Archaeological Services Durham University
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, South East Cramlington Strategic Employment Site: Preliminary Archaeological Assessment 1997; The Archaeological Practice
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, Middle Farm ; Archaeological Services Durham University
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