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Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell is a complex of archaeological remains located in County Durham. The site comprises evidence of medieval and post-medieval land use, including field boundaries and associated earthworks that reflect the exploitation of the upland landscape. The industrial workings indicate extraction activities characteristic of the early modern period, reflecting the economic development of this moorland area. These features collectively provide material evidence for the evolution of settlement patterns and resource management across several centuries of land use on Cockfield Fell.
Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002314. View the official record →
Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell is a complex of archaeological remains located in County Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002314.
Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002314.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Penny Hill camp (4.6 km), Stockton & Darlington Railway: Etherley Inclines, summit and upper sections (5.9 km), Stockton & Darlington Railway: Belts Gill embankment, lower part of the northern Etherley Incline (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Enclosures and industrial workings on Cockfield Fell stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.