Over Prendwick Deserted Village (Alnham)
NU 003129: Three or four rectangular foundations apparently contemporary with the surrounding rigg and furrow were located on air photographs. These may represent part of a deserted medieval village at Prendwick. Surveyed at 1:625. (1)
Documentary references: 1242, 1318. 1336, 1377, 1554. Over Prendwick represented by earthworks at NU 003129 which comprise a single row of rectangular garths. (2)
NU 0038 1295. The site lies on a SSE-facing slope at about 200 m OD, amidst broad ridge-and-furrow cultivation. Since 1979, the date of the 1/625 survey (see Authority 1) the land has been ploughed, fenced and upgraded. Though an attempt was made to preserve the remains, this was not entirely successful. Of the three rectangular foundations planned in 1979 [NU 0012/15-17], the eastmost [NU
0012/17] has been totally destroyed, all of the tofts have been truncated by ploughing, and little survives of the broad rig. A further building footing [NU 0012/18] was identified. Building 15, the best example, is 14.2 m E-W by 3.4 m transversely within a turf-covered stone wall surviving to a maximum height of
0.15 m. Some facing stones are visible suggesting a wall width of 0.9 m. The building is roughly divided in half by a cross wall; the E half is slightly lower and less well-defined than the W, and its E extremity is mutilated by a land drain. No entrance is identifiable.
No 16 measures internally 13.0 m (approximate) by 3.0 m, its turf- covered wall, 0.1 m maximum height and about 0.9 m thick. There is a gap, 2.0 m long in the N side wall and the E end wall is very vague.
No entrance(s) nor cross wall(s) are evident.
No 17 is destroyed. From the 1979 plan it seems to have measured about 12.0 m E-W by 3.0 m transversely.
Building 18 is in poor condition; it has measured about 8.5 m E-W by 3.5 m transversely but it survives merely as a platform fringed with a few visible stones. The N backscarp and the S front apron are each 0.05 m high. No wall widths, entrances or cross walls are visible. (3a)
Documentary references: 1242, 1318. 1336, 1377, 1554. Over Prendwick represented by earthworks at NU 003129 which comprise a single row of rectangular garths. (2)
NU 0038 1295. The site lies on a SSE-facing slope at about 200 m OD, amidst broad ridge-and-furrow cultivation. Since 1979, the date of the 1/625 survey (see Authority 1) the land has been ploughed, fenced and upgraded. Though an attempt was made to preserve the remains, this was not entirely successful. Of the three rectangular foundations planned in 1979 [NU 0012/15-17], the eastmost [NU
0012/17] has been totally destroyed, all of the tofts have been truncated by ploughing, and little survives of the broad rig. A further building footing [NU 0012/18] was identified. Building 15, the best example, is 14.2 m E-W by 3.4 m transversely within a turf-covered stone wall surviving to a maximum height of
0.15 m. Some facing stones are visible suggesting a wall width of 0.9 m. The building is roughly divided in half by a cross wall; the E half is slightly lower and less well-defined than the W, and its E extremity is mutilated by a land drain. No entrance is identifiable.
No 16 measures internally 13.0 m (approximate) by 3.0 m, its turf- covered wall, 0.1 m maximum height and about 0.9 m thick. There is a gap, 2.0 m long in the N side wall and the E end wall is very vague.
No entrance(s) nor cross wall(s) are evident.
No 17 is destroyed. From the 1979 plan it seems to have measured about 12.0 m E-W by 3.0 m transversely.
Building 18 is in poor condition; it has measured about 8.5 m E-W by 3.5 m transversely but it survives merely as a platform fringed with a few visible stones. The N backscarp and the S front apron are each 0.05 m high. No wall widths, entrances or cross walls are visible. (3a)
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FIELD SURVEY, Field Survey in Northumberland 1979
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
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