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Prehistoric house north of Barrow Cleugh (Alwinton)

NT 870120: A single unenclosed 'ring-groove' house, situated in a commanding position to the west of the Barrow Burn was discovered during fieldwalking in 1979. Surveyed at 1:500. (1)
(This site is possibly a duplicate of NT 81 SE 4).

The ring groove is up to 900mm wide x 200mm deep and forms a circle 11m diameter. No definite trace of entrance. (2)(3)

NT 870120. Barrow Burn unenclosed settlement. (4)

Scheduled. (5)

NT 8700 1202. Unenclosed round house 200m N of Barrow Cleugh. Scheduled RSM No 25033. The house is visible as a narrow ditch 90cm wide and 20cm deep forming a circular enclosure 11m in diameter, the remains of a prehistoric timber round house. (6)
N519
Later Prehistoric (4000BC to 43AD)
Bronze Age (2600BC to 700BC)
Iron Age (800BC to 43AD)
Scheduled Ancient Monument
FIELD SURVEY, Field Survey in Northumberland 1979


Source of Reference
Local History of Alwinton

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