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<< Our Photo Pages >> Street House Farm - Barrow Cemetery in England in Cleveland

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Street House Farm
Country: England County: Cleveland Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Loftus
Map Ref: NZ73651960
Latitude: 54.566274N  Longitude: 0.86243W
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drolaf visited on 11th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 1 Access: 4 as with many such sites it is the excavation drawings that tell the story. It sits in a timescale overlapping with the neolithic saltworks, and 1500 years before the nearby timber 'wossit'

Street House Farm
Street House Farm submitted by drolaf : view from the site of the neolithic longcairn/timber portal (Vote or comment on this photo)
At Street House Farm near Loftus in the Tees Valley, is a prehistoric monument that contains burials from both the Neolithic and Bronze Age. The original monument was built during the Neolithic and consisted of several phases of construction, including a burial mound with a timber façade and finally a rectangular shaped burial mound.

During the Bronze Age, a circular cairn was constructed over the top of the site of the Neolithic mound. Cremated bone was found in both the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments.

Source: TWMuseums

Location is approximate, there is lots more prehistory in the immediate area.

Note: An extraordinary range of site types and time periods at this recently excavated site
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Street House Farm submitted by johndhunter : Street Houses is an area rich in archaeology, however to the casual onlooker, there is nothing much to see, it has all been unearthed by excavation. The above sketch map is my understanding of where some of these features once stood. The early Neolithic mortuary complex at NZ 73650 19620 consisted of a long cairn, mortuary enclosure and mortuary house overlaid by a kerbed Bronze Age ROUND BAR... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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neolithic barrow cemetery at Street House, north-east Yorkshire, England by drolaf on Sunday, 12 September 2021
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as with many such sites it is the excavation drawings that tell the story. It sits in a timescale overlapping with the neolithic saltworks, and 1500 years before the nearby timber 'wossit'
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Dig reveals 6,000-year-old salt hub in north-east England by Andy B on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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Archaeologist says Neolithic discovery may be among oldest salt-processing sites in western Europe

Neolithic people were manufacturing salt in Britain almost 6,000 years ago, before the building of Stonehenge and more than two millennia earlier than was first thought, a new archaeological discovery suggests.

Excavations at a site at Street House farm have revealed evidence of the earliest salt production site ever found in the UK and one of the first of its kind in western Europe, dating to around 3,800BC.

The finds, uncovered at a coastal hilltop site near Loftus in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, include a trench containing three hearths, broken shards of neolithic pottery, some still containing salt deposits, shaped stone artefacts and a storage pit – all key evidence of salt processing.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/31/dig-reveals-6000-year-old-salt-hub-in-north-yorkshire

http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/early-neolithic-salt-production-at-street-house-loftus-northeast-england/685000E2BB4CA0384CC8B4C7127D17F5#

http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.25
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Video: Dr Stephen Sherlock - Excavations at Street House, North East Yorkshire by Andy B on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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Dr Stephen Sherlock - Excavations at Street House, Loftus, North East Yorkshire: Neolithic - Anglo-Saxon
given to the Royal Archaeological Institute, Society of Antiquaries of London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6OLyjGdys


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'Spectacular' discovery of Teesside's oldest house confirmed by Andy B on Tuesday, 19 December 2017
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4th DEC 2016: It pre-dates Stonehenge: 'Spectacular' discovery of Teesside's oldest house is confirmed

Being nearly 6,000 years old makes it the oldest house on Teesside - and potentially the oldest neolithic house in Yorkshire

The results are in - and the discovery of what’s thought to be Teesside’s oldest house has been confirmed.

Earlier this year, Dr Steve Sherlock and fellow Teesside Archaeological Society members were excavating at a known site near Loftus when he found evidence of a house - a very old house.

They’d been trying to find evidence of a pottery kiln after a substantial Roman building was found nearby in 2013.

Instead, they found an oval house buried deep into the ground.

Hazelnut shells and other items found during the dig were sent off to experts at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre.

And after using radiocarbon dating techniques, they’ve now confirmed the house dates from between 3,942BC to 3,706BC.

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/pre-dates-stonehenge-spectacular-discovery-12271422
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The Lost Royal Cult Of Street House, Yorkshire by Andy B on Monday, 17 October 2011
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Some 20 years ago Stephen J Sherlock uncoveredan Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Norton, Cleveland (the dig was published by the CBA). Recently, researching for a doctorate, he excavated an iron age settlement: and he found another Anglo-Saxon cemetery. It is, as he and Mark Simmons report, one of the most extraordinary discoveries in recent British archaeology.

For the past four years, Steve Sherlock has been excavating at Street House Farm, near Saltburn, North Yorkshire – as he will be again later this summer. The work began as part of a programme of research into iron age settlement in the north of England, and focused on a cropmark of a rectangular enclosure, seen from the air, close to known prehistoric ritual monuments. These include the Street House long cairn, a neolithic mortuary structure excavated in 1979–1981.

A limited trial excavation in 2004 demonstrated the potential of the site, showing that two ditched enclosures were of iron age and Roman date. A geophysical survey suggested a number of features within these enclosures, and further excavations in the summer of 2005 revealed three iron age roundhouses in an area of 500m². There were also 30 graves, initially of unknown date: the acidic nature of the East Cleveland soil means that bone does not survive, and not all of the graves contained artefacts.

Whilst the significance of the graves was then a mystery, it was immediately apparent that the iron age settlement was particularly well preserved, with a floor surface and hearth surviving in the main roundhouse (number 3). Excavations in 2006 and 2007 brought the total to nine distinct roundhouses. We have evidence for on site cultivation of spelt wheat and barley, and also craft activities including the use of jet.

There are two ritual deposits: a miniature quern stone found at the entrance to roundhouse 1, and a large pit within another roundhouse containing an iron spearhead, quern stones, pottery and red ochre. The most interesting find, however, consisted of two hearths complete with coarse ceramic furniture for the manufacture of salt by the evaporation of seawater. The enclosure is 200m from the sea cliffs, but at an altitude of 170m. The nearest similar salt working site is at Cowbit in Lincolnshire (though not at a similar altitude). A barley seed from roundhouse 3 has been radiocarbon dated to 210–40BC.

More in BA 100 (May 2008)
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba100/feat2.shtml
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Re: Excavations at Street House, Loftus 2011 by Andy B on Monday, 17 October 2011
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Teesside Archaeology Society are carrying out a further season of archaeological excavation at Street House near Loftus. Excavations in September 2011 are hoping to complete the work on two sites discovered in 2010 and to examine two further small areas inside the Iron Age enclosure. The timescale for the work is from early September until Sunday 26th September 2011. Over the years since 2004 the excavations have revealed traces of human activity from the Neolithic Period (c3,000 BC) to the Anglo-Saxon (700AD) this years excavations are designed to complete a picture about the use of one field over that period of time.

In 2010 excavations revealed traces of what is believed to be a Neolithic cairn similar
to a site excavated by Blaise Vyner between 1979 and 1981 (Vyner 1984, 1988). This
site although altered by later activity has revealed rock art and finds dating from the
Neolithic period as well as traces of a facade trench, mortuary structure and enclosure
all of which will be investigated this year.

This project has the support of Redcar & Cleveland Council Museum
Service who have now opened The Saxon Princess Exhibition at Kirkleatham
Museum, Redcar.

Plan and more details at
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/new/documents/EXCAVATIONSATSTREETHOUSE2011.pdf

Further Reading
Sherlock, SJ, 2007 The Excavation of an Iron Age Settlement at Street House, Loftus,
North East Yorkshire 2004–2006. Middlesbrough: published privately
Sherlock, SJ, 2010 The Excavation of a Romano-British Settlement at Street House,
North Yorkshire NZ 7390 1965. Teesside Archaeological Society, Redcar:
Sherlock, SJ, 2011a “Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Tees Valley and their association
with Neolithic and later Monuments” in Brookes, S, Harrington, S &
Reynolds, A, 2007, Studies in Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology BAR
527
Sherlock, SJ, 2011b The Anglo-Saxon Princess Exhibition Guidebook Kirkleatham
Museum, Redcar
Sherlock, SJ, & Simmons, M, 2008 “The Lost Royal Cult of Street House,
Yorkshire”, British Archaeology, 100, 30–37
Vyner, BE, 1984 ‘The excavation of a Neolithic cairn at Street House, Loftus,
Cleveland’, Proc. Prehist. Soc (PPS), 50, 151–96
Vyner, BE, 1988 “The Street House Wossit: The Excavation of a Later Neolithic and
Early Bronze Age Palisaded Ritual Monument at Street House, Loftus,
Cleveland” PPS. 54, 173-202
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Excavations at Street House, Loftus by Andy B on Thursday, 13 October 2011
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The excavation at Street House, Loftus, has revealed new insights into both the Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon periods, with the further prospect of tantalising clues about the Romans. All of these discoveries are within 200m of a Neolithic cairn and Bronze Age barrow suggesting that in this one corner of East Cleveland there is evidence for human activity stretching back over 5,000 years.

In excavations between 2005 and 2007 nine circular structures, roundhouses, have been unearthed. The remains of these structures have survived to a remarkable degree, even though they lie just 30cm below the ground.

Gallery
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/new/StreetHouseGallery.html
Detailed description
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/new/StreetHouseInDepthInfo.html
A large image of the excavation here
http://www.teesarchaeology.com/new/images/121_2150.JPG
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A seventh-century royal cemetery at Street House, north-east Yorkshire, England by Andy B on Thursday, 13 October 2011
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The transition from Pagan polity to Christian kingdom in England is marked by the appearance of rich tombs, of which the best known are those at Sutton Hoo (Carver 2005). Recent discoveries which have added to the corpus are notable for their wealthy women (at Redcar and Ely). The latest aristocratic burial ground to be investigated, described here, lies in north-east England. It was superimposed on a prehistoric monument and contained a high ranking woman on a bed surrounded by 109 graves, arranged two by two.

http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/sherlock/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_House_Anglo-Saxon_cemetery
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