MONUMENT NO. 4017

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The alleged site of a tower, possibly built in the late 14th century. A survey of 1560 describes a partly destroyed tower with a barmkin, at Thornton. One corner of the tower was repaired in 156. The site is on the level top of a slight natural ridge, now under the plough. There is no trace of a building or courtyard.

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[NT 94764818] Tower [LB] (Site of). (1)

A survey of 1560, describes a partly destroyed tower with a barmkin, at Thornton. It was destroyed in 1513. (2)

The site is on the level top of a slight natural ridge, now under
the plough. There is no trace of a building or courtyard. (3)

Tower house and barmkin built shortly after 1348, badly damaged in 1513, but one corner had been repaired by 1561, in which year it was sold and nothing of its subsequent history is known. There are grass-covered bumps in a field by Thornton Cottage, 500 yards North-West of Thornton hamlet which appear to be of the right dimensions for a tower house. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 25" 1963

( 2) General reference

Raine J. 1852. History of North Durham, 20

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DS 09-MAY-67

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

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