Post-medieval farmstead south-west of Blackwool Law (Rochester and Byrness)
Shielings: Medieval: Field clearance cairns: Unclassified NY 803977. (1)
Centred at NY 80259777 are the turf-covered footings of a building about 20m by 6m with a small pen 5m square about 50m to the south-west and another similar about 400m due east. They are surrounded by modern turf-covered walls and banks. About 250m north-east several low piles of stones are probably the result of modern field clearance. The whole is probably the remains of a small farmstead of 17th/18th century date. (2)
Earthworks of linear building aligned NNW-SSE clearly visible on lidar imagery. Nothing shown here on historic OS maps so presumably already abandoned by mid 19th century; probably post-medieval but potentially earlier. Lies within large circular ditched enclosure (HER 33362) to which it could be related. May also be linked to adjacent bell pits. (3)
Centred at NY 80259777 are the turf-covered footings of a building about 20m by 6m with a small pen 5m square about 50m to the south-west and another similar about 400m due east. They are surrounded by modern turf-covered walls and banks. About 250m north-east several low piles of stones are probably the result of modern field clearance. The whole is probably the remains of a small farmstead of 17th/18th century date. (2)
Earthworks of linear building aligned NNW-SSE clearly visible on lidar imagery. Nothing shown here on historic OS maps so presumably already abandoned by mid 19th century; probably post-medieval but potentially earlier. Lies within large circular ditched enclosure (HER 33362) to which it could be related. May also be linked to adjacent bell pits. (3)
N8108
FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT), Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1977; I S Sainsbury
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