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Archaeology in Northumberland Friends 100 95 75 Archaeology 25 5 in 0 Northumberland 100 95 75 25 5 0 Volume 20 Contents 100 100 Foreword............................................... 1 95 Breaking News.......................................... 1 95 Archaeology in Northumberland Friends . 2 75 What is a QR code?...................................... 2 75 Twizel Bridge: Flodden 1513.com............................ 3 The RAMP Project: Rock Art goes Mobile . 4 25 Heiferlaw, Alnwick: Zero Station............................. 6 25 Northumberland Coast AONB Lime Kiln Survey. 8 5 Ecology and the Heritage Asset: Bats in the Belfry . 11 5 0 Surveying Steel Rigg.....................................12 0 Marygate, Berwick-upon-Tweed: Kilns, Sewerage and Gardening . 14 Debdon, Rothbury: Cairnfield...............................16 Northumberland’s Drove Roads.............................17 Barmoor Castle .........................................18 Excavations at High Rochester: Bremenium Roman Fort . 20 1 Ford Parish: a New Saxon Cemetery ........................22 Duddo Stones ..........................................24 Flodden 1513: Excavations at Flodden Hill . 26 Berwick-upon-Tweed: New Homes for CAAG . 28 Remapping Hadrian’s Wall ................................29 What is an Ecomuseum?..................................30 Frankham Farm, Newbrough: building survey record . 32 Spittal Point: Berwick-upon-Tweed’s Military and Industrial Past . 34 Portable Antiquities in Northumberland 2010 . 36 Berwick-upon-Tweed: Year 1 Historic Area Improvement Scheme. 38 Dues Hill Farm: flint finds..................................39 The Till, Milfield and Tweed Valley: the Culley’s Water Meadows. 40 Flodden 1513: England’s first ecomuseum . 42 Low Hauxley: Druridge Bay – Footprints in the Peat . 44 Obituary: Bill Ford .......................................45 Melkridge Farm, Haltwhistle................................46 Council for British Archaeology (North) . 47 Till Valley Archaeological Society ...........................47 Bedlington Ironworks: online access . 48 Dry Burn, Holystone: earthwork survey . 50 The Battlefields Trust – North East Region . 51 Heritage At Risk.........................................52 Bamburgh Royal Observer Corps Bunker . 54 A Golden Age of Discovery?: Lidar, Aerial and Analytical Survey on Hadrian’s Wall..........................................56 Northumberland Conservation..............................57 Shittleheugh Bastle and its Landscape, Otterburn. 58 Preston Smithy, Ellingham.................................60 Holy Island Partnership...................................61 Northumberland National Park Heritage at Risk . 62 Bamburgh Castle – 9th century industry . 62 Seaton Delaval..........................................64 Northumberland Coast AONB: military remains survey. 66 Dueshill Farm: unusual hollow ways . 67 Barowburn: A Mill on the Coquet............................68 Assessing the Past ......................................69 100 Flodden 500: Artefacts Road Show..........................72 100 95 95 75 75 Front cover: Surveying the ‘Horseshoe’ rock 25 at Lordenshaws as part of the RAMP Project 25 (see page 4) 5 5 This page: Plan of the landscape 0 surrounding Shittleheugh Bastle (see page 0 58) Foreword rchaeology in Northumberland on the eco-museum concept, 100 Areaches its 20th Edition this year Professor Peter Davis, is a member 100 and has received a face lift for its of staff at Newcastle University and 95 20th birthday. Despite the downturn has been extremely supportive in his 95 in investment in development which provision of advice to the project (see W 75 had reduced the amount of page 30 and 42). e 75 l development led archaeology in c o Northumberland we still have a full This year has also seen the m edition of reports to offer here. completion of a number of projects e 25 25 including RAMP, which moves the t This year has been a bumper year for interpretation of Rock Art on to a new o 5 5 non-developer initiated research in level providing, initially at least, digital A r c 0 Northumberland by community access to interpretive materials for 0 h groups and other bodies, such as the three sites in Northumberland (see a Northumberland Coast AONB who page 4). We also have interesting e have in the last 12 months reports on several underground o l commissioned external assessments bunkers that have been o elcome to the 2011 edition of g of both military architecture (page 66) photographically surveyed in the last y Archaeology in W i and also lime kilns (page 8). 12 months. One from WW2 is a very n Northumberland. It’s a great pleasure rare survival (see page 6) and the N for me to be providing my first This year has also seen big steps other is a fine example of the Royal o Foreword for this long running forward in the preparations for the Observer Corps bunkers built across r t community report, now in its 20th h commemoration of the 500th the UK during the Cold War (see year. u Anniversary of the Battle of Flodden page 54). m in two years time. While the b This year’s edition charts the strength community archaeology project at Finally you will find that the e and breadth of interest and support r l Flodden Hill has carried out a second community groups in the Coquet a 3 for Northumberland’s Heritage with a year of excavation and field walking Valley have continued to be n wide and varied range of projects d (pages 26 and 72) the Flodden 500 prolifically active in the last 12 months : from the contribution of Berwick committee has also completed its first over a wide range of sites. We have V Middle School to the Townscape o phase of fundraising and has reports from Coquetdale Community l Heritage Initiative in Berwick Town u delivered the development of Archaeology on the Bronze Age Cairn Centre (page 38) through the various m England’s first Eco-Museum and the Field they have surveyed at Debdon developments at Flodden in the run e UK’s first cross-border Eco-Museum Burn (see page 16) and the remains up to the 500th Anniversary of the 2 as a result. of a 12th century mill they have 0 Battle in 2013 (pages 26, 42 and 72) identified and commenced to the community-led excavations Eco-Museum is a concept that most excavations on during this summer at being carried out by Coquetdale people will not have come across Barrowburn (see page 68 and below). Community Archaeology at the site of before. While it has been in At the same time the Archaeology the medieval fulling mill at development world wide for over 50 and History group at Holystone have Barrowburn (page 68). years there is only one other example been working gradually towards an in the UK on the Isle of Skye. These excavation of an interesting newly 2010 and 2011 have been times of projects are community led and identified earthwork near Holystone big change at Northumberland managed and offer a new means by Grange and have included a report County Council and while which we can contribute to the on their initial survey of the site (see Northumberland Conservation has successful conservation of the page 50). had to take a good hard look at its County’s heritage joining a world budgets and restructure its staff to wide club that includes Eco- Finally we would like to thank Friends ensure it is providing the most Museums in France, Sweden, Italy of Archaeology in Northumberland for efficient service to the communities it Norway, Spain, Iran, Canada and their continued support - we hope to serves, it has developed into a Japan to name but a few. We are see many of you over the coming stronger team which now includes very lucky in Northumberland in that months at the renewed Friends within its portfolio management of the one of the world’s foremost experts Events (see page 2). Northumberland Coast AONB and CB/SR representing Northumberland County Council on the partnership of the Stop Press * Stop Press * Stop Press * Stop Press North Pennines AONB. I hope these hough completed too late to report A changes will continue to strengthen r c the service delivered by in this year’s Archaeology in h T a 100 100 Northumberland we can report that the e Northumberland Conservation (see o Coquetdale Community Archaeology l 95 page 57). o 95 excavations at Barrowburn Mill have g y been an outstanding sucsess (see I 75 Finally I would like to thank the n 75 opposite). N Friends of Archaeology in o r Northumberland for their continued t Time Team made a programme at h support of this annual report of u 25 Beadnell in July and we hope to have a m 25 heritage issues in the County and, report about their dig in issue 21. b e like Friends members, welcome the r l 5 a 5 return of Friends walks and site visits Finally we have heard that the Holy n d (see page 2). Island HLF Landscape Partnership / 0 0 0 Phase 1 has been sucsessfull - we will 1 Cllr Tom Brechany certainly hear more in A in N 21. FRIENDS of Archaeology in Northumberland 100 100 ince April 2009 the Friends of Northumberland (Volume 20). 95 Friends Programme (2011-2012) 95 SArchaeology in Specifically we will be asking 75 e Northumberland events have been contributors to speak about sites that August 7th 2011 - 2nd World War 75 m in abeyence, partly due to the work otherwise could not be visited, due structures in the Northumberland Coast m a involved in Local Government either to their location or because AONB (see page 66) and wildlife r 25 g Reorganisation (see page 57) and they have been backfilled or covered highlights in the same area - Chris 25 o r partly due to new requirements for over by development. We also hope Burgess and Iain Robson 5 P 5 Health and Safety and First Aid to have some poster displays at this 2 provisions. We however recognise event from the various volunteer 1 October 23rd 2011 - Barrowburn Mill 0 0 0 that the continued publishing of groups from around Northumberland. and Slymfoot. (See page 68) - David 2 - Archaeology in Northumberland, now Jones of Coquetdate Community 1 1 in its 20th year, still relies very heavily Finally there will also be an Archaeology.
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