The hill is in very poor condition, vandalized to the extreme, rubbish, fires, diggings and a large volume of motor bikes cutting a deep trench right across the middle of the barrow, this is exposing the hill to erosion and destroying anything that still might lay under the soil. Well that’s Sunderland for you.
Looking south from Hasting Hill, the cursus is located to the fields below, not a lot to see really, Warden Law is the hill top center.
The view from Hasting Hill looking east towards the sea. The hill to the left is Humbledon Hill, once a defended settlement of Iron Age date which developed from a Later Bronze Age palisaded enclosure, surviving as the buried remains of its ditches and partially surviving banks. The east, the settlement has been compromised by housing development, gardening activities and the construction of a Victorian reservoir.
To the right are the Tunstall Hills, Twin conical hills south of the city of Sunderland, with views over the city and the sea. The twin peaks gave this site its older name of Maiden Paps. There have been a number of archaeological finds, on each hill. Flints, scrapers, cores and limpet shells, a bronze axe head, and cists.
The hill is in very poor condition, vandalized to the extreme, rubbish, fires, diggings and a large volume of motor bikes cutting a deep trench right across the middle of the barrow, this is exposing the hill to erosion and destroying anything that still might lay under the soil. Well that’s Sunderland for you.
Looking south at Hasting hill. The hill can be seen driving north on your right hand side from the A19.
Hasting Hill, where a burial ground used by prehistoric man in about 2400-1500 BC. It was excavated in 1911. Several cists were discovered during the excavation, with one containing the remains of a man, a flint knife and an earthenware food vessel.
Together with Penshaw Hill and Worm Hill in Fatfield these monuments make up a direct east-west alignment which may be of importance.
Marked Tumulus on the map, this barrow is situated near the top of Hasting Hill, on the side that faces away from Sunderland’s infamous Pennywell housing estate. The site is reputed to be in poor condition.
A photograph of Hasting Hill.
