MONUMENT NO. 21468

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Possible site of a defended house or pele, built between 1415 and 1541. No trace of such a structure is now visible above ground.

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Bastle and a little barmkin at Greenleighton. (1)

Described in the 1541 survey as a little stone house with a barmkin and not in good repair.
(Not listed in the 1415 survey pp 13-19). (2)

NZ 02719198 No trace of this building was discovered and there are no local traditions regarding its existence. No significant field names were discovered.

The present farmhouse, quite modern, stands on a rise and with its fine southern aspect possibly occupies the site of this building, which from its description in authority (2) appears to be one of the defended houses common to this region. (3)

The `strong house with barmkin' was probably built between 1467 and 1501, at the same time as peles were built on other land owned by Newminster Abbey. The suggestion is that it was not a pele. Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (4,5)

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

(R N Hadcock) 16 - 1939 Page(s)169

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

(C J Bates) 14 - 1891 Page(s)46

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 EG 18-FEB-57

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

Page(s)251

(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)348

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