The Lee, Elyburne (Brinkburn and Hesleyhurst)
(NZ 08089787) At Elyburne is a strong pele house. All memory of the pele has been lost; the very name has perished. It was evidently between Whitton and Ritton, and from a passage in Hall and Humbertson's Survey of the confiscated estates of Thomas, Earl of Northumberland in 1569 (a) the Elyburne appears to be the Forest Burn, and a farmhouse called the Lee probably occupies the site of the pele. (Not listed in the 1415 Survey pp.13-19). (1)
The Lee is a modern farmhouse with outbuildings and farm buildings of contemporary construction, situated in level pastureland above the south banks of the Forest Burn. The site commands the valley for up to a mile to the west and east, and looks upon hill ridges running either side of the valley to north and south.
No traces of a tower or pele could be found in or around the farmstead. There is no local knowledge of the former existence of such a structure. (2)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (3a-b)
The Lee is a modern farmhouse with outbuildings and farm buildings of contemporary construction, situated in level pastureland above the south banks of the Forest Burn. The site commands the valley for up to a mile to the west and east, and looks upon hill ridges running either side of the valley to north and south.
No traces of a tower or pele could be found in or around the farmstead. There is no local knowledge of the former existence of such a structure. (2)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (3a-b)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; A S Phillips
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