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***SWAAG_ID***	690
Date Entered	03/03/2013
Updated on	04/03/2013
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Geographical Record
Record Type	Archaeology
Site Access	Public Access Land
Record Date	02/03/2013
Location	East Witton Fell, Braithwaite Moor, Strut Steer and Caldbergh Pasture.
Civil Parish	East Witton
Brit. National Grid
Geology	Namurian Millstone Grit Strata with previously mined coal seams on the higher moorland. Glacial till with ice margin and overflow channels. British Geological Survey Sheet 51 - Masham Sheet.
Record Name	An archaeological traverse of Witton Fell, Braithwaite Moor, Braithwaite Banks and Caldbergh Pastures. Part One: The Moorland Sites
Record Description	Part One of this record is a photographic introduction to the archaeological landscapes of an elevated area of heather grouse moorland on the NE Pennine Fringe with fine views over Lower Wensleydale, the Tees Lowlands and Vale of Mowbray to the North York Moors. The archaeological interest lies in sites of Bronze Age date and with the comparatively recent remains of the Whitton Moor Colliery. Details of which will be briefly provided in the image captions. More detailed descriptions will be available as specific SWAAG Database Site Records.
Dimensions	See OS 1:25000 Sheet OL31
Additional Notes	This record consists of photographs taken during a field walk on a fine day in early March by SWAAG Members- Tim and Eileen Laurie,David Brook,Mike Walton and with Jim Brightman across Witton Fell, Braithwaite Moor, Braithwaite Banks, Strut Steer and so down to Caldbergh Pasture. The walk included a visit to the very large and as yet undated earthwork enclosure known as East Witton Camp above Braithwaite Hall (A very fine aerial photograph of this earthwork forms the front cover to R.F.White and P.R. Wilson Eds.2004. 'Archaeological and Historic Landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales'Yorkshire Archaeological Society Occasional Paper No. 2.) and to the smaller enclosure known as Castle Steads Fort at Caldbergh Pasture. Photographs take during this walk of these sites within the enclosed pastures form Part Two of this record. For brief details of the Sites, see Image Captions. For details of the Burnt Mounds on Witton Moor, see SWAAG Record NO 52 and the burnt Mound below Town Spring at Ings Head below Caldbergh Moor, see SWAAG Record No 53.
Image 1 ID	4054 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description	The start. View over The Vale of Mowbray from road end above Sowden Beck.
Image 2 ID	4055 Click image to enlarge
Image 2 Description	Two burnt mounds at the same spring rise which has been controlled as a water supply. Ihe very large and prominent burnt mound is on the northern bank of the spring stream just below the source. The smaller and lower burnt mound is on the opposite or southern bank.
Image 3 ID	4056 Click image to enlarge
Image 3 Description	Detail of the burnt mounds at Sowden Beck Spring
Image 4 ID	4057 Click image to enlarge
Image 4 Description	Detail of the burnt mounds at Sowden Beck Spring
Image 5 ID	4058 Click image to enlarge
Image 5 Description	Detail of the burnt mounds at Sowden Beck Spring
Image 6 ID	4059 Click image to enlarge
Image 6 Description	Small burial cairn. This mound of highly consolidated small stones probably cover a grave of early to Bronze Age Date. This grave is undisturbed and long may it so remain. RIP.
Image 7 ID	4060 Click image to enlarge
Image 7 Description	The same burial mound. This small round cairn is located some 400m to the north of the two burnt mounds and overlooks the Vale of Mowbray.
Image 8 ID	4061 Click image to enlarge
Image 8 Description	The track to Caldbergh with isolated Scots Pine. Two lithic finds indicate the presence of an occupation site sealed below thin peat nearby.
Image 9 ID	4063 Click image to enlarge
Image 9 Description	Cairnfield type settlement remains near the rackway across Braithwaite Moor. These remains which consist of scattered stone clearance cairns, short lengths of stone field banks and occasional ring cairns and stone kerbed burial cairns are characteristic of Upland Pennine occupation of the Mid to Late Bronze Age Date
Image 10 ID	4064 Click image to enlarge
Image 10 Description	The slight remains of this can be seen on the gentle hill slope above the upper reaches of Sowden Beck over a considerable distance, but are only visible where heather has been recently burnt . cairnfield extends
Image 11 ID	4065 Click image to enlarge
Image 11 Description	The Cairnfield, detail with EAL.
Image 12 ID	4066 Click image to enlarge
Image 12 Description	The Witton Moor Colliery. Remains of Mine Shop at SE12698442, 339m AOD, with adjacent hollow Ways and a large shaft mound
Image 13 ID	4067 Click image to enlarge
Image 13 Description	The Witton Moor Colliery. Remains of Mine Shop at SE12698442, 339m AOD, with adjacent hollow Ways and a large shaft mound
Image 14 ID	4068 Click image to enlarge
Image 14 Description	Isolated stone round cairn at SE12418469, 350m. This small burial mound is located with views across the Tees Lowlands and to the Eston Hills.
Image 15 ID	4069 Click image to enlarge
Image 15 Description	The road to the Whitton Moor Colliery. Legend has it that the ladies of the nearby Great Houses took their Sunday Horse and Trap excursions on this road to see the miners hard at work.
Image 16 ID	4070 Click image to enlarge
Image 16 Description	Coal pit.
Image 17 ID	4071 Click image to enlarge
Image 17 Description	Coal Pit
Image 18 ID	4072 Click image to enlarge
Image 18 Description	Coal Pit
Image 19 ID	4073 Click image to enlarge
Image 19 Description	Coal pit and level driven into the hillside at a lower elevation.
Image 20 ID	4074 Click image to enlarge
Image 20 Description	Coal pit and level driven into the hillside at a lower elevation.
Image 21 ID	4075 Click image to enlarge
Image 21 Description	Caldbergh Moor. Burnt mound at spring rise above Ewe Lock. Cairnfield complex below Strut Steer nearby.
Image 22 ID	4076 Click image to enlarge
Image 22 Description	The view from the burnt mounds above Ewe Lock.
Image 23 ID	4077 Click image to enlarge
Image 23 Description	This photograph indicates that there could be two burnt mound sites here,not one as originally thought.
Image 24 ID	4078 Click image to enlarge
Image 24 Description	Caldbergh Moor.Crundall Hill. Glacial feature: Ice margin channel.
Image 25 ID	4079 Click image to enlarge
Image 25 Description	1:500 Scale survey of field system,cairnfield and ring cairn complex below Strut Steer. T.C. Laurie September 2006.
Image 26 ID	4083 Click image to enlarge
Image 26 Description	Andrew Fleming and Eileen Laurie at the field system and cairnfield below Strut Steer. 1980.
Image 27 ID	4084 Click image to enlarge
Image 27 Description	Field bank as first discovered, under heather.
Image 28 ID	4082 Click image to enlarge
Image 28 Description	Ring cairn and stone free field, below Strut Steer.
Image 29 ID	4086 Click image to enlarge
Image 29 Description	The Ring Cairn. For details and extent of this bronze age cairnfield type settlement, see survey above
Image 30 ID	4087 Click image to enlarge
Image 30 Description	The Ring Cairn, detail.