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Projects
Tees
Archaeology are involved with a wide range of
projects throughout Teesside, including projects
in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough,
Redcar & Cleveland
and Stockton-on-Tees.
Over
the coming months and years we plan to document
and digitise as many projects that we are involved
with as possible in this section.
Projects
by Location:
Hartlepool | Middlesbrough
| Redcar & Cleveland
| Stockton-on-Tees
| Other Projects
Other
Projects:
Sites and Monuments Record
Aerial
Photography
WWII
Civilian defences
Hartlepool
The
Heugh Gun Battery.
As
Seen On TV! The Heugh Battery is one of only two
coastal gun batteries to have seen enemy action
and is the site where the first British soldier
of the First World War was killed, while on British
soil.
Hartlepool Submerged Forest
10,000 years ago Hartlepool Bay was dry-land covered
by a dense forest. Read about our long term work
into rediscovering this lost landscape.
Catcote
Romano British Settlement
Catcote is a prehistoric and Romano-British settlement
on the crest and slopes of a low hill on the edge
of the modern town of Hartlepool.
Hartlepool
Saxon Monastery
A concise summary of the archaeology of the Saxon
Monastery, including new discoveries made by the
Community Archaeology Project in 2003.
Time
Team at Hartlepool
The visit in 1999 by Channel 4's Time Team. Behind
the scenes of the programme.
Medieval
Hartlepool
Including Southgate, Middlegate, the Medieval
Harbour, Town Wall & Sandwell Gate, the Friary
& St. Hilda's Church.
The
Seaton Shipwreck
An exceptional chance maritime find, proving to
be the most substantially intact wooden shipwreck
yet discovered on the North-East coast of England.
Late
Bronze Age Hoard at Throston
Bronze Age remains are relatively rare in Hartlepool.
This 2002 metal-detector find was totally unexpected.
Middlesbrough
Dixon's
Bank
An entire Romano-British landscape lying beneath
21st century housing.
Medieval
Acklam
Learn how the modern suburb of Acklam grew from
a small agricultural village.
Stainsby
Medieval Village
The medieval village of Stainsby was deserted
by 1757. Its remains can still be seen today as
a series of humps and bumps in fields to the west
of the A19, only a stone’s throw from Thornaby
Town Centre and Teesside Retail Park.
Captain
Cook Birthplace Museum & the Time Team 2003
'Big Dig'
Discover Martons famous link to Britain's most
loved explorer Captain James Cook.
IronMasters
District & Trail
The birthplace of modern Middlesbrough.
Redcar
& Cleveland
Saltburn
Rutway Survey
A
series of rutways cut into the foreshore around
Huntcliff Foot, Saltburn, associated with the
local Alum and Ironstone industries.
Eston
Hills
Once home to prehistoric settlers and location
of a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age hillfort.
Highcliffe
Nab
A rocky outcrop near Guisborough provides the
earliest evidence of human activity on Teesside.
Guisborough
Priory
Founded by Robert De Brus in 1119 AD this monastry
became one of the most powerful in Yorkshire,
throughout the Middle Ages.
Guisborough
Medieval Town
A brief history of this ancient town.
Street
House Long Cairn
The routine excavation of a Bronze Age burial
mound in 1979 led to the remarkable discovery
of one of the few known Neolithic structures in
the North-East.
Iron
Stone Mining
When Iron Stone was found in the Eston HIlls 130
years ago it became the building blocks of modern
day Teesside. Now little remains of the awesome
industry that was once here, but the memories
of those who were working in them.
Kilton
Medieval Castle & Village
A 13th Century castle and later corresponding
villages.
Foxrush
Farm (Iron Age Settlement)
A new Iron Age community discoved in the middle
of the new community forest.
The
Wreck of the Dimitris
The Dimitris sank after hitting rocks
about half a mile off shore on the night of on
December 14th 1953 at around 9.30pm.
The
Alum Industry.
Alum
was Britain’s first chemical industry beginning
in the early 1600s. Alum shales were quarried
and processed at Guisbourgh, Loftus and Boulby
in East Cleveland for over 200 years.
Stockton-on-Tees
Bishopsmill
School, Norton
In February 2003 Tees Archaeology started the
excavation of an early Christian cemetary in Norton.
By the time the work had been finished over 100
skeletons had been discovered and excavated.
Anglo
Saxon Norton
Re-visit this landmark excavation. Gallery includes
new images of the wonderful collection of finds
discovered at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Norton.
Thorpe
Thewles Iron Age Settlement
An almost complete fossilized landscape.
Yarm
Medieval Town
Yarm
was a medieval market town which has deffinate
saxon roots. It was first recorded in the Doomsday
book and since then it has had a long and colourful
history.
Ingleby
Barwick Bronze Age Cemetery
During the construction of a new housing estated
foul play was suspected when a body was uncovered.
However it seems that some people are now living
on an wealthy Bronze Age burial ground.
19th
century Stockton & the Railways
The Borough of Stockton is world famous as the
pioneer of the world's first passenger carrying
railway. The district is studded with industrial
relics such as windmills, railway stations, warehouses
and foundries.
Other
Projects
Tees
Archaeology Aerial Photography
A useful tool for the archaeologist.
Tees Archaeology Sites & Monuments Record
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