Typical remains of population shrinkage, adjoining the east end of Dalton village, consisting of a few banks and depressions forming enclosures and building steadings. Surveyed at 1/2500. (1)

(NZ 11177196) Earthworks (Consequent publication). (2)

Condition unchanged. The remains are slight and form no coherent pattern. (3)

Dalton was a member of the lordship of Baliol. One third of the vill was granted to Hexham Priory in the 12th century. Seven taxpayers recorded in 1296 Subsidy. The Priory acquired the remainder of the vill in the 14th century. The Black Book of 1379 records five freehold holdings, 19 husbandlands and seven cottages. Some holdings were amalgamated and Dalton contained only eleven tenants.
The number of holdings had decreased by the 16th century. The Dissolution Survey recorded seven tenants. Circa 1600 half of the township was granted to the Errington family; and in 1607 the remainder was conveyed to Sir William Hewitt and John Hewitt. In 1632 Dalton contained five freeholders.
Dispersal of steadings occurred from the 16th to 19th centuries. By 1841 only one farmstead remained in the village area.
Crofts banks and house platforms indicate the line of a southern row of tenements. (4)

Medieval settlement is visible as earthworks on air photographs taken in 1946, but difficult to discern on later 1988 vertical photographs and are centred at NZ 1117 7205. There are linear banks, which probably represent small enclosures, some of which seem to be of a later phase, possibly post medieval. One sinuous boundary bank and ditch defines the edge of broad medieval ridge and furrow and was possibly also used as trackway. To the east of the present village of Dalton (NZ 1121 7203) there are banks and other amorphous features, but it is difficult to discern their form from the vertical photographs. These have been described as 'shrunken' village remains, including building steadings. (5a)

General association with HER 31286. (5)