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   Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 00:35:48 JST Ken Milmore

   • Infoseepage

   @Infoseepage There is a little one just up the road from me (Washing Wells), an early fort which is only about 150m square. Nothing left visible from the ground there now.

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     Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 04:07:09 JST Ken Milmore

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Hmm. Yes there does appear to be a circular palimpsest of some sort. When I was a very young lad I remember it being surveyed from the air. Walked over it countless times but it just looks like any other farm field really. There was a colliery nearby up until the 1960s so there may be other reasons for surface disturbance.

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     Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 04:28:20 JST Ken Milmore

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Had a look for it on the wonderful NLS georeferenced maps. There was still nothing there on the 1850s OS map, but their satellite overlay layer shows the circular pattern just as clearly.

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     Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 04:50:25 JST Ken Milmore

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage We may be getting confused about the orientation. Found this snippet on a local FB group. I will have to look it up at Gateshead Library when I'm next in there.
     https://www.facebook.com/groups/dunstongateshead/posts/10162520405865090/

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     Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 05:07:14 JST Ken Milmore

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Yes I bet there is a lot going on below the surface there. Very odd that nobody has ever excavated it.

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     Ken Milmore (kbm0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 05:57:14 JST Ken Milmore

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage The FB post led me to look for the Arbeia Journal. There is an article on the fort in Journal 3 (see link for pdf) which mentions a previous excavation adjacent the site which unsurprisingly found old mine workings (no surprise, they are found pretty much everywhere around here). Apparently there is another article in Journal 10 which I have yet to obtain.
     https://www.arbsoc.org.uk/arbeiajournal