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The Investigation of Eighteenth Century Mining Remains at Scon's Park, Byemoor Farm, Gateshead, 2018

Sunderland Civic Centre, Nuclear Bunker and Railway Tunnel: Historic Buildings Recording, 2022

Neptune Yard, Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Archaeological Assessments and Historic Building Recordings, 2010-2015, 2015

The assessment focuses on an area of land formerly occupied by the Swan Hunter Neptune Yard centred on NGR NZ 4299 5653. The site is situated approximately 5km east of Newcastle city centre on the north bank of the River Tyne and falls predominantly within Walker and partially in Wallsend. The assessment area, which has been cleared entirely of all buildings, is an irregular shape bounded by the River Tyne to the east, the dry docks to the north, the south part by the former shipyard to the south and a mixture of terraced and commercial properties to the west. The site under assessment covers approximately 7.1 hectares. 2.2 Geology and Topography The current assessment site at the former Neptune Yard, Walker sits upon shales and sandstone. This is overlain by clay deposits, in some places up to c.7.6m deep (Headland Archaeology 2006). The site is predominantly flat, but slopes or terraces sharply upwards to the riverside road on its landward side. However, the current flat topography of the site is partly a product of infilling; the underlying topography is likely to be gently sloping upwards from the river edge. 2.3 Previous Archaeological Assessment and Investigation There have been two previous archaeological investigations within or bounding the current assessment site.

2005

The new annual award in memory of John Hurst The Medieval Settlement Research Group is dedicated to enhancing our understanding of the rural landscape and its settlement in the period c. AD 400-1600. The laIc John Hurs! was a major figure in the development of the Group and in his honour, and to encourage new and young scholars, an alUlUal prize of £200 is offered for the best Masters dissertation on any theme in the field of medieval settlement and landscape exploitation in Britain and Ireland. MA directors in Archaeology, Engl ish Local History, Landscape Studies or relatcd fields are encouraged to submit high quality eomplcte dissertations by students in the academic year 2005-6 to the Secretary of the MSRG by 31 st December 2006. A panel will judge the entries and an award made at the end of March 2007. A summary of the winning entry may also be published in the Group's Annual Repon. CONFERENCES The MSRG Spr ing 2007 Confe rence The MSRG Spring Weekend Conference 2007 will take place in Manchester over 2 days. A flier with furthe r dctai ls and an application fonn is included with this repon. RESEARCH GRANTS The group can make grants up to a maximum of £500 annually for the support of research by members of the Group within its field of interest. Preference will nonnal!y be given to field survey, documentary research and preparation of graphics rather than to excavation and the preparation of reports for publication. A summary report of the work will be required within a year and, subject to editorial consideration, may be published in the Annual Report. Applicants should reply by letter (4 copies) summarising the proposed research and the costs involved. Mention should be made of other applications for funding. The names of two referees should be included. Letters should be addressed to the Treasurer (Dr. R. E. Glasscock, St John's College, Cambridge. CB2 ITP). To be received by I st December in the year preceding that in which work will be carried out. Applicants will nonnally be notified of the outcome in the following March. Recent research grants have been awarded to: Or Helen Hamerow-£500 towards dmwing work on materials from the Saxon cemetery at Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Or Howard Williams-£494 towards survey work at the shrunken medieval village site at Stokenham, Devon.

Quay Timber, Ouseburn, Byker, Newcastle: Archaeological Evaluation, Historic Buildings Record and Watching Brief, 2021

Excavations on the Roman Road at Holystone Common, Northumberland, 2018

93-115 Newbridge Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Archaeological Evaluation, Historic Building Recording and Archaeological Watching Brief 2009-2010, 2010

Entrances to Tyne Dock, Jarrow, South Tyneside: Photographic Recording and Summary Condition Survey, 2009

Carraw Farm, Northumberland: Archaeological Mitigation by Excavation and Watching Brief, 2015

 Illus. 02: Plan of Carraw farmstead showing the position of the strip, map and sample archaeological mitigation works (yellow infill and Drain Trench) and the position of the preceding phase of evaluation trenching (red transparency infills) in relation to the existing farmstead and other new developments (purple transparencies).

Tritlington Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Incorporating An Historic Buildings Assessment, 2022

39 Fenkle Street, Alnwick, Northumberland: Archaeological Watching Brief and Historic Buildings Assessment, 2021

1997

Frontispiece: RAF vertical aerial view of the northwestern part of Barton Bendish Chapter 1 Barton Bendish Survey PI.I RAF vertical aerial view of the Pl.II PI.III intersection of the east-to-west Roman road and the Devil's Dyke RAF vertical aerial view of the northern part of Eastmoor hamlet RAF vertical aerial view of the eastern part of the main village 2 26 30 Chapter 2 Barton Bendish Excavation Pl.IV RAF aerial view of the excavations PI.V Area B, soil mark of ditch 307 after PI.VI PI.VII PI.VIII PI.IX PI.X machine clearance Area B, ditch 307 facing north Area B, ditch 307 facing east Area D, ditch 422 facing east Area A, wall 203 Area D, general view at early stage of excavation, looking northeast Chapter 3 Caldecote Survey 43 55 55 55 55 55 55 Pl.XI Aerial view of the surveyed field 78 Chapter 1 Thanks are due to the following farmers and landowners who kindly allowed the author access to their lands: Messrs Fake, Fisher, Mason, Matthews, Phillips, Riches and Sanderson. Special thanks must be given to Barton Bendish Farms Ltd and all its staff, in particular former farm manager Mr Frank Boardman and his successor Mr Brian Reynolds who in the face of repeated enquiries about cropping programmes and ground conditions showed great patience and considerable enthusiasm. Thanks are also due to the late Tony Gregory, John Wymer, Frances Healy, Sarah Jennings, Bill Milligan and Sue Margeson for their help with finds identifications, to Cathy Coutts who identified a Middle Saxon imported sherd, to David Fox and Steven Ashley who showed great patience and skill while producing the illustrations, to Brian Cushion for surveying earthworks at Abbey Farm and drawing Fig. 15, to SteveBrown who searched several fields with a metal detector, to Danny Voisey for bringing seven out ofeight ring-ditches to the writer's attention, and finally to the late Reg Fisher without whose invaluable and freely given help the finds would have remained dirty and unmarked. Chapter 2 Thanks are due to the following people: site owners Messrs Bostock, Lemmon and Page who contributed to the excavation costs; the then Rector Rev. Jack Smith and Brian Reynolds of Barton Bendish Farms who helped in many ways; Steve Brown who metal-detected the site; Group Capt. Henderson of RAF Marham who arranged for air photographic coverage; the excavation team,

Halton Lea Farm, Hartleyburn, Northumberland: Archaeological Assessment, 2008

the south side of this linear feature; one appears to link with a feature at the top of the valley side. Much of the floor of the valley east of the former main cluster of colliery buildings is now covered by a large colliery spoil heap. Cat. No. 12: HER N/A, NGR NY 6450 5890; Building remains The remains of a building, perhaps associated with a small enclosure survive at the corner of two modern field boundaries overlooking the Black burn northwest of Halton Lea farm. The structures are likely to be fairly modern, dating to the early 19 th century at earliest, but are not depicted on any of the available historic mapping. Cat. No.13: HER N/A, NGR NY 6560 5910; Rig & furrow Rig and furrow is visible on aerial photographs (notably HER AP ref. RAF-106g-uk-1392 apr46 fr3143) and faintly visible on the ground between Halton Lea and Clover Hill farms, running northwards from an area of quarrying or surface mining activity (see below). Cat. No. 14: HER N/A, NGR NY 6545 5895; Early coal mining site or quarry Coal mining may well have been carried out in the area since antiquity. Remains between Halton Lea and Clover Hill farms are particularly apparent on a bluff overlooking the flood plain of the Blackburn, where pits and longitudinal scars are present, but also on the west-facing slope of a deep valley running northwards towards the flood plain, where depressions which may be infilled bell-pits are present. Some of these remains, particularly those on the hill-top, may also be the product of stone quarrying, but coal spoil is certainly apparent around those on the valley side. 4.2 Sites in the vicinity of the assessment area:

A167 North Road/ Whessoe Road/ Albert Road Junction Improvement, Darlington: Archaeological Assessment, 2004

2012

people spent short periods assisting on the site and these people are thanked also. For assistance with the analysis and report production thanks are extended to Dr F. Climo,