Geophysical Survey of the Prehistoric Settlement at Gardener's Houses Farm, Dinnington
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Biggins, J.A., Biggins, J., Coxon, B. and Watson, M., 1997, 'Geophysical Survey of the Prehistoric Settlement at Gardener's Houses Farm, Dinnington', Durham Arch. J, 13. "The settlement at Gardener's Houses Farm, Dinnington (Tyne and Wear, Scheduled AncientMonument No.25), known since 1971 (McCord and Jobey 1971), was provisionally assigned an IronAge/Romano-British date (Miket 1984). The presence of numerous similar settlements in the north-east of England has been confirmed particularly by the use of aerial survey (McCord and Jobey 1968, 1971; Harding 1979). Many of these sites are only visible on aerial photographs and their continued survival is a matter of concern.....The earliest documentary evidence mentions an R. Gardner resident in Brenkley Township in1663, after which family the farm is presumably named. Gardener's House Farm is shown on thePlan of the Manor of Brenkley and Mason, 1769, and the field names Quarry Riggs and West QuarryRiggs suggest that the quarry, still to be seen at NZ210744, was in use before that date. Maddison(1830) suggests that there was a 'regular pavement' in the nearby Prestwick Carr, which he ascribed toRoman influences....." -
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