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An archaeological survey on Hartington Moor on the Wallington Hall Estate, near Morpeth, Northumberland.

An archaeological survey on Hartington Moor on the Wallington Hall Estate, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
An archaeological survey on Hartington Moor on the Wallington Hall Estate, near Morpeth, Northumberland.
An area of unimproved heathland on Hartington Moor situated some 250m above OD on the higher western limit of the Wansbeck drainage basin, was chosen for archaeological survey as a piece of landscape intermediate between the higher uplands to west and north and the lower claylands of central and coastal Northumberland. The aim of the survey was to assess the extent and nature of the upstanding archaeology and associated patterns of land-use. Our methodology combined field-walking with detailed planning of important monuments and basic documentary research. Results indicated a range of settlement nuclei and associated land-use across the moorland, the whole forming an archaeological landscape, with a sequence of sites dating from the Neolithic onwards including quite intensive occupation of the area in the Bronze Age and Iron Age through to the period of Roman occupation. A change in the pattern of settlement seems to have then taken place, with a decrease in the nuclei represented in the archaeology, and a shift from mixed agriculture to pasture.
Landscape Archaeology, Settlement, Field survey, Northumberland
0261-3417
1-27
Fowler, P.J.
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Strutt, K.D.
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Fowler, P.J.
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Fowler, P.J. and Strutt, K.D. (2005) An archaeological survey on Hartington Moor on the Wallington Hall Estate, near Morpeth, Northumberland. Archaeologia Aeliana, 34 (5th series), 1-27.

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An area of unimproved heathland on Hartington Moor situated some 250m above OD on the higher western limit of the Wansbeck drainage basin, was chosen for archaeological survey as a piece of landscape intermediate between the higher uplands to west and north and the lower claylands of central and coastal Northumberland. The aim of the survey was to assess the extent and nature of the upstanding archaeology and associated patterns of land-use. Our methodology combined field-walking with detailed planning of important monuments and basic documentary research. Results indicated a range of settlement nuclei and associated land-use across the moorland, the whole forming an archaeological landscape, with a sequence of sites dating from the Neolithic onwards including quite intensive occupation of the area in the Bronze Age and Iron Age through to the period of Roman occupation. A change in the pattern of settlement seems to have then taken place, with a decrease in the nuclei represented in the archaeology, and a shift from mixed agriculture to pasture.

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Published date: 2005
Keywords: Landscape Archaeology, Settlement, Field survey, Northumberland

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Local EPrints ID: 49938
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/49938
ISSN: 0261-3417
PURE UUID: edd15ba4-7d34-4717-b447-2c5c20918ab5

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Date deposited: 21 Dec 2007
Last modified: 22 Jul 2022 20:57

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Author: P.J. Fowler
Author: K.D. Strutt

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