The Medieval and Later Landscape at Egglestone Abbey, Teesdale, County Durham. Survey Report
Author(s): Christopher Dunn, Amy Lax
In November 2000, English Heritage carried out an archaeological survey and investigation of the medieval and later landscape of Egglestone Abbey in County Durham. The survey found evidence for three main phases of land use – in the medieval period; immediately after the Dissolution and finally from 1770 onwards. Apart from the area occupied by the abbey ruins, almost the whole of the locality contains evidence of ridge-and-furrow cultivation but in many fields much later ploughing has largely levelled even this. The result of this long and sustained phase of arable is that the non-cultivation earthworks that survive are, on occasions, incomplete and tend to form isolated groups with any linking remains having been destroyed. (This was report number 10/2001 in a previous series).
- Report Number:
- 119/2001
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 35