Archaeology
in Stockton-on-Tees
The
district of Stockton-on-Tees has a number of nationally
important archaeological sites. Amongst the earliest
of these is the Thorpe Thewles Iron Age settlement
which was excavated in the early 1980’s.
Many of the best sites in Stockton have been chance
finds. An unusual Bronze Age cemetery was found
at Ingleby Barwick by housebuilders in 1997. In
the early 1980’s schoolchildren discovered
an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Norton which when excavated
produced some of the finest metalwork of the period
in the region.
Stockton
has a mixture of urban and rural settlement and
many of these were first established in the medieval
period. There are excellent examples of surviving
medieval settlement in villages such as Cowpen
Bewley and Elton. There are also buried medieval
remains just waiting to be discovered beneath
the High Street of Stockton town centre which
once housed a medieval castle, chapel and commercial
quarter. Other centres such as Yarm still retain
much of their early character with fine merchant
housing from the 18th century, a medieval church
and the buried remains of a medieval monastery.
Stockton
is world famous as the birthplace of the modern
passenger railway system. Relics of this former
aspect of our industrial past survive in the form
of the original 1825 trackbed of the railway at
Preston Park and the Booking office near Victoria
Bridge Stockton.
Find
out more about the archaeology of Stockton-on-Tees
from the following project pages.
Stockton-on-Tees
Links
 Stockton-on-Tees
Borough Council
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council has been responsible
for all local authority services in the Borough
since April 1996, when it became an all-purpose
'unitary' Council.
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