MONUMENT NO. 16339

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Site of a medieval tower house, recorded in 1541 at Settlingstones. No visible remains survive.

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At Satlyngestones (name Settlingstones NY 84696826 - O.S.6" 1920) is a tower of the inheritance of William Carnabye, esquire, in measurable good repair (1). Shown by Hadcock (2). (1-2)

The farmhouse and outbuildings are all of a late period of construction. No traces of antiquity can be found in or around the farmstead. The tenant, Mr. Cookson, can offer no historical information. The site is level ground against a very gentle east slope, which overlooks the Settlingstones Burn Valley to the north and east. The ground rises south-wards to a pasture ridge beyond a small vale. (3)

The tower was recorded asabeing in good condition in 1541. Listed by Cathcart King and Dodds. (4,5)

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( 1) General reference

History of Northumberland Pt 3 Vol II 1828 Survey of 1541 (J Hodgson) Page(s)217

( 2) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

Map (RN Hadcock) 16 1939 Page(s)186

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 26-OCT-56

(4) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)379-80

(5) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)353

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