Abstract

2. The Cotnby Hills at North Charlton, N orthutnberland Keith Blood and Mark Bowden The subject of this report is an instance of a bizarre an integral part of the system of broad ridge and reversal of the usual form of ridge and furrow. It furrow to the north. As the ridge declines in height occurs in the fields of the shrunken medieval northwards the remnants of the old land surface village of North Charlton (Bateson 1895, pp. 290- become lower and more muted, until ultimately 300), about 11 km north of Alnwick. Only they merge into the more familiar ridge and furrow, fragmentary earthworks of the village survive truncated on the west by the main road. This broad amongst the modern structures, and most of the ridgin£: ends on the eastern lip of the summit of the field systems associated with the medieval settlement ridge, at the base of which further, somewhat have been erased by the plough. The major abraded, ridges are evident running from NNE to exception to this is an extensive area of ridge and ssw. furrow occupying the fields of permanent pasture Camby Hills has excited interest previously. In to the east of the