The South East Northumberland Air Photo and Lidar Mapping Project
Author(s): Alison Deegan
This project generated a detailed map and records of archaeological and historical features that are visible on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. This report outlines the methods employed and sources used to achieve this outcome. This is followed by discussions of the results in their wider context. It looks at the small but diverse group of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments and the numerous and homogenous late Iron Age enclosures. This report uses previous documentary and cartographic research to assess the nature and significance of possible medieval and early post medieval earthworks, cropmarks and soilmarks. A significant proportion of the archaeological and historical remains recorded by this project pertain to the extraction, processing and transportation of coal and so this topic is given due consideration. Previously undocumented landscape features in parkland at Ravensworth and Gibside are described and there is a brief overview of the First and Second World War military features. This report ends with recommendations for further work and suggests monuments for Local List status and those for which statutory protection might be considered if a threat were to arise. This report seeks to highlight the contribution of this method of remote prospection to archaeological and historic research and to the management of the historic environment.
- Report Number:
- 79/2022
- Series:
- Research Report
- Keywords:
- Bronze Age Coal Iron Age Medieval Modern Neolithic Post Medieval Settlement Aerial Photograph Interpretation First World War Aerial Photography Lidar Survey Enclosure Ridge and Furrow Second World War Causewayed Enclosure
