page_title: Cliffe, Richmondshire
section_title: Time Team investigation
hierarchical_section_title: Cliffe, Richmondshire / Archaeological sites / Digs and finds / Time Team investigation
caption_attribution_description: English: Source description says: "Roman Bridge&#160;: Piercebridge On the south bank of the River Tees, an excavated site with the remains of abutments and piers. On the course of Dere Street Roman road." View across Tees from Cliffe, Richmondshire. This bridge was once part of the Roman road Dere Street, which is now diverted.
context_page_description: Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in the Tees Valley near Piercebridge in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles west of Darlington, and 10 miles north of Richmond and the Yorkshire Dales. The population of the civil parish as taken by ONS at their 2011 Census was less than 100, so information is included in the parish of Manfield. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 30.
  Cliffe has a long history, as shown by the number and range of archaeological sites from tumuli to an English Civil War battleground, most of which are scheduled monuments. A stream called the Glen runs through the village to the Tees. Together with Manfield, Aldbrough St John and Melsonby it forms the ward of Melsonby whose total population recorded at the 2011 census was 1,406, and the area is largely agricultural. The village is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.
context_section_description: At the end of June to the beginning of July 2009, archaeological television programme Time Team investigated the Roman remains of Piercebridge Roman Fort and the supposed Roman bridge, and it is now suspected that the remains on the south bank are not a bridge at all, but the footings of a jetty, and that the location of the Roman bridge is unknown. A similar view had previously been suggested by Raymond Selkirk. Gravel extraction in the 1940s and later landfill and landscaping on the south bank have hampered archaeology.
caption: The southern end of the Roman bridge remains at Cliffe, looking north towards Piercebridge
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