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<< Other Photo Pages >> Howick Village - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Northumberland

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 31 January 2014  Page Views: 13895

Multi-periodSite Name: Howick Village
Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Alnwick
Map Ref: NU25851660
Latitude: 55.442599N  Longitude: 1.592949W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Howick Village
Howick Village submitted by Creative Commons : Reconstruction of a Stone Age hut Above Howick Bay. The grass has grown a lot since earlier photos Copyright Oliver Dixon and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Excavations at a coastal site at Howick during 2000 and 2002 revealed evidence for a substantial Mesolithic settlement and a Bronze Age cist cemetery. A replica of the 10,000 year old round-house has been constructed on a nearby cliff-top site.

The Mesolithic site was discovered by the identification of flint artifacts in the eroding cliffs by amateur archaeologists.

The site was fully excavated and dated. Twenty one radiocarbon determinations of the earlier eighth millennium BP (Cal.) indicate that the Mesolithic site is one of the earliest known in northern Britain. Howick offers a unique opportunity to understand aspects of hunter-gatherer colonisation and settlement during a period of rapid palaeogeographical change around the margins of the North Sea basin time when it was being progressively inundated by the final stages of the postglacial marine transgression.

The cist cemetery will add to the picture of Bronze Age occupation of the coastal strip and again reveals a correlation between the location of Bronze Age and Mesolithic sites which has been observed elsewhere in the region.

Preliminary report: A Mesolithic Hut at Howick, on the Northumberland Coast by Clive Waddington with Geoff Bailey, Alex Bayliss, Ian Boomer, Nicky Milner, Kristian Pedersen, Robert Shiel and Tony Stevenson

For more details see the web site for the archaeological investigation: The Howick Project
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NU2516 : Gateway on National Cycle Route 1 by JThomas
by JThomas
©2015(licence)
NU2516 : Mesolithic occupation structure by Russel Wills
by Russel Wills
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NU2516 : Remains of Mesolithic round-house, Howick by Andrew Curtis
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©2016(licence)
NU2516 : NCN1 towards Howick by DS Pugh
by DS Pugh
©2022(licence)
NU2516 : Reconstructed Mesolithic round-house by Andrew Curtis
by Andrew Curtis
©2008(licence)

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Re: Howick by PastMaster on Tuesday, 04 February 2014
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This was featured on an early BBC COAST programme. With Alice Roberts if memory serves. http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/series1/10-berwick-robin-hoods-bay.shtml
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