MONUMENT NO. 4124

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A bastle is recorded at Felkington in 1561. It was probably built after 1541. No trace of such a structure is now visible.

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A survey of 1561 mentions a bastall house of small strength at Felkington. Probably built after the survey of
1541. (1)

Felkington is a collection of farm buildings at NT 9444. There are no apparent remains of a bastle and no local knowledge concerning its site. (2)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (3,4)

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

G.J.Bates 14, 1891 Page(s)52 53

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 10-NOV-55

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

Page(s)44-5

(4) 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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