(NT 87862760) Camp. (1)

Hetha Burn North. A rectangular earthwork with a single rampart enclosing approximately 1/4 acre. (2)

Type B3 (Forts on flat or low lying ground). (3)

An irregular earthwork perhaps made for the protection of cattle as well as people. (4)

Situated on a north-west slope. Apparently the remains of a near square enclosure contained by a bank of earth and stones average width 4m maximum height 0.8m. There is a simple entrance on the north-west side.
Parts of the south-east and south-west sides have been destroyed by surface quarrying. Spoil from the workings has covered part of the enclosed area which shows no traces of occupation.
Small streams to the east and west form a nearby water supply. No evidence of dating. (5)

A sub-rectangular earthwork, probably Romano-British, with ruined earth and stone walls enclosing a number of small hollowed courts having sharp scarps on the uphill sides, but fairly flat interiors. Some of the ridges between the courts appear to be unexcavated mounds with some upcast present, rather than constructed walls. There is at least one platform with traces of a circular hut site but no stone foundations. Remains of a stone wall or bank running north-east from this position seems to be secondary. Other possible floors lie uphill in the south-east corner. (6)

In forms and construction the work is similar to the rectilinear type of homestead prevalent in the North Tyne area. Revised at 6 inch scale. (7)

Set into fairly steep north-west facing rough pastured slopes are the remains of an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement containing at least four, possibly seven, huts. (See enlargement at 1:1250).
There appears to have been two phases. The first, a sub-rectangular homestead enclosure, measuring 32m north-west/south-east by about 32m, containing three possible hut stances, overlaid and partly destroyed on its south side by a second phase comprising the addition of four circular stone walled huts (A to D) and some seven 'courts'. Huts A, B and C are mainly evident as turf covered stony edged platforms about 7.5m in diameter, 'D', set into the slope, is 6m in diameter. The walls are about 1m wide and 0.3m high. 'A' has an ill-defined entrance in the south-east and the others are in their north-east quadrants. The 'courts' are almost certainly small cultivation plots with stone clearance emphasising the scarps. (The plots were noted erroneously as surface quarrying and spoil. Surveyed at 1:10,000. (8)

Visible on thermal imagery along with trackway heading south past NT 82 NE 73. (9)

Hetha Burn Roman period native enclosed settlement. Scheduling revised on 20th May 1996, new national monument number 24607. (10)

A pronounced hollow way leads south eastwards from the site for a distance of about 150m. This and other hollow ways and field walls to the north, east and south may represent parts of an associated field system. (11)

A Roman period native enclosed settlement consisting of two phases. The first phase is comprised of the earthwork remains of a rectangular enclosure with a single rampart, this is visible at the northern end, but a later scooped settlement overlies the southern end; scheduled. (12a)