Monument Number 1400600 |
| Hob Uid: 1400600 | |
Location :
Leeds
Parlington, Sturton Grange, Micklefield
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| Grid Ref : SE4310034700 |
| Summary : Iron Age enclosures, trackway, field boundaries and ditches, a ditch of uncertain date and Roman roadside quarries are visible as cropmarks on air photographs.The first enclosure is incomplete and sub-square in form. It is incorporated into a system of large, irregular fields. The second abuts one edge of a trackway. Two trackways are visible, both on a north-west south-east alignment. One was shown to have been partly formed by segmented ditched when excavated.Roman Road 28b bisects the site and appears to have been superimposed on the Iron Age landscape. Several quarry ditches can be seen alongside the road one of which lies within the limits of the enclosure.Excavation has dated the features on this site. |
More information : Iron Age enclosures, trackway, field boundaries and ditches, a ditch of uncertain date and Roman roadside quarries are visible as cropmarks on air photographs centred at SE 4321 3473.
The first enclosure, at SE 4325 3467, is incomplete and sub-square in form. It measures 37m by 43m and has an entrance to the south-east. The enclosure is incorporated into a system of large, irregular fields. The second, at SE 4329 3461, abuts one edge of a trackway. Two trackways are visible, both on a north-west south-east alignment running from SE 4309 3471 to SE 4335 3461and SE 4326 3491 to SE 4347 3478. One was shown to have been partly formed by segmented ditched when excavated.
Roman Road 28b bisects the site and appears to have been superimposed on the Iron Age landscape. Several quarry ditches can be seen alongside the road one of which lies within the limits of the enclosure at SE 4325 3467.
Excavation has dated the features on this site.
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