Ancient Sites in South Tyneside

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bobpc Jun 4, 2007 15:08:44

I live in Jarrow and was wondering if there was any records, remains or anything that would there to look at or arrange to view in the surrounding areas. I drive, so there is no problem getting there. I just do not know where there is. Is there anything in South Shields, Pelaw, Wardley, Boldon, Hebburn. I am convinced there has to be something there.
Please, do not get me wrong. I enjoy going to Cumbria and Northumberland look at sites. Went to Stonehenge last year, Arbor law just a few weeks ago. Been to plenty of sites, some better than others.
Lordenshaw is a favourite, though I do know that I will not find anything on that scale. I have used google and windows live to view the above.
HELP

D dee
dee Jun 4, 2007 15:16:22
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Check out this sites guide....got a map and everything. You should be able to find out what is there. Click on the modern Antiquarian bit at the top of the page and get in there!

H Hob
Hob Jun 4, 2007 21:02:31
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bobpc wrote:
Is there anything in South Shields, Pelaw, Wardley, Boldon, Hebburn. I am convinced there has to be something there.
Hallo Bob,

There's nowt to see in any of those places these days, unless you count the titchy cup-marked portable at Arbeia fort. I've not seen it, but it's not much to write home about by all accounts.

Annoyingly, there did used to be a few bits and bobs, but they've all been trashed. Reports of cists that indicate a high likelihood of cairns have popped up all over ST and Gateshead, stretching down to the other side of Wearside.

Heading south from the Tyne, Wearside is the first place that has undisputed prehistoric remains, with the cursus and associated bits at Hastings Hill and Copt Hill-
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6788/hasting_hill_cursus.html
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2301/copt_hill.html

Mind you, whenever I've got the 319 through Boldon, the view from the top deck at sunset/sunrise always used to suggest a badly trashed hillfort to me. I'd also bet confectionary on there having once been cairns along the ridge between Boldon and the Coast. And as for the area around Bede's Well, I think it would have been a fair bet that the shape of the land would have lent itself to cairns/mounds visible from the river, at the very least.

The unproveable and highly conjectural prehistory of Tyneside. One of my favourite subjects :) I've some more detailed refs to some of the destroyed sites, if you're interested, I'll dig them out and post them here.