(NY 98307093) Earthworks. (1)

(NY 98307093 "Camp" (Linear earthwork shown north of Bewclay Farm). (2)

The site is elevated and would serve well as an exploratory fort. No remains, however, can be traced as works of defence, though the rough ground to the north of the farm looks very like entrenched remains. (3)

An 'ancient pile at Bukeley is mentioned in a survey of 1715'. (4)

The "entrenched remains" north of the farm, consist of an old field-bank (the O.S. published linear earthwork) with the foundation of two rectangular buildings abutting on its south west side. East of the farm is a small area of hummocky ground which probably contained more buildings, though no intelligible pattern survives.
These remains represent minor depopulation only. None of the present farm buildings is of any great age, and no trace of a pele could be found.
Published survey (25 inch) revised. (5)

Condition unchanged. (6)

Beuclay was a vill in the regality of Hexham. Nine people in the vill paid tax in the 1295-6 Subsidy. No further indication of the size of the medieval village. Depopulation seems to have occurred by the mid-17th century. The ruins of a pele, with four other buildings, are shown on Armstrong's map of 1769, to the north of the road. The settlement now comprises a farmstead and a cottage.
The village site has been much affected by quarrying. The only clear earthwork seen is a bank running east-west in a field to the north of the present road. Ridge and furrow runs up to the steading on the south of the road. (7)

Beuclay shrunken medieval village. (8)

Bewclay (Bukeley) Pele. Mentioned c.1715, [as authority 4]. (9)

Medieval/ post medieval boundary banks and buildings are visible as earthworks on air photographs centred at NY 9840 7091. The field boundary and demolished buildings noted by authority 5 are visible to the north of the farm. To the east and west of the farm are further boundary banks, one of which defines the edge of medieval/ post medieval ridge and furrow. (10a)