MONUMENT NO. 21004

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Possible site of a pele tower, built circa 1467, seviceable in 1541, and demolished prior to 1818. No trace of such a structure is visible above ground.

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Rothley Tower, mentioned in a survey of 1541 as being in good repair, was demolished prior to 1818. It stood behind an old three-storeyed hall there. (1)

Probably built about 1467. (2)

No trace of the tower or hall survives. They probably stood in the area of depopulation centred NZ 043880 (NZ 08 NW 13), but the site of neither is distinguishable, and there is no local knowledge of them. (3)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (4,5)

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( 1) General reference

Hodgson, J. 1827. History of Northumb 2, 1. (306-7, 319)

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

C J Bates 14, 1891 Page(s)21 46

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DS 09-SEP-68

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

Page(s)255-6

(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)352

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