MONUMENT NO. 16872

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Slight earthwork remains indicate the site of a probable pele tower. It was recorded in 1437 and was ruinous by 1592.

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[NY 81177055] Sewingshields Castle [G.T.] (Site of) [T.I.] (1)

The Castle belonged to Sir Robert Ogle, who died in 1437. A tower in decay was recorded in 1542, and the size of the ruins suggests that it was never more than this. There are traces of ditches near it. (2)

There are no visible remains of the tower at NY 81177055. It appears to have been defended on the west side by a single ditch, the remains of which are now discernible only as a very slight unsurveyable ground depression. (3)

Founded in the 14th or early 15th century, last documented in 1541 when it was ruinous, the site now ploughed over. Listed by Cathcart King and Dodds. (4,5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1920-46

( 2) General reference

History of Northumberland Vol 3 Pt.II 1840 (J. Hodgson) Page(s)386

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 RWE 09-NOV-65

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

Page(s)377-9

(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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