Little Ryle (Alnham)
(Area NU 023106) Little Ryle Ruins. (Symbols show two rows of roofless structures. Siting approximately due to scale of map). (1)
The area indicated lies within a pasture field, much disturbed by quarrying and rig and furrow ploughing.
'A' NU 02231047. A rectangular depression 27m by 20m and of 1.3m maximum depth with a few stones visible in the perimeter is situated south-west of the area. This may be the site of a building, robbed to foundation level, and is the only feature that may be associated with the 'roofless structures' shown by authority (1). Enquiries revealed no significant field names.
A small hamlet may have existed here but there is a total absence of literary evidence concerning it. The present 'Little Ryle' is a farmstead at NU 01941110, incorporating a late 16th century bastle (NU 01 SW 12). (2) (6a)
The population of Little Ryle in 1801 was 50. In 1931 it was 10. (3)
Listed as a Deserted Medieval Village. (Nothing visible on available aerial photographs (RAF 1946)). (4)
Documentary references: 1295, 1336, 1346, 1821. The site of Kaiseley (the western part of Little Ryle township in the 17th century) may be identified with the turf-covered foundations of a long partitioned rectangular house 26m x 6m at NU 014100. (5)
The area indicated lies within a pasture field, much disturbed by quarrying and rig and furrow ploughing.
'A' NU 02231047. A rectangular depression 27m by 20m and of 1.3m maximum depth with a few stones visible in the perimeter is situated south-west of the area. This may be the site of a building, robbed to foundation level, and is the only feature that may be associated with the 'roofless structures' shown by authority (1). Enquiries revealed no significant field names.
A small hamlet may have existed here but there is a total absence of literary evidence concerning it. The present 'Little Ryle' is a farmstead at NU 01941110, incorporating a late 16th century bastle (NU 01 SW 12). (2) (6a)
The population of Little Ryle in 1801 was 50. In 1931 it was 10. (3)
Listed as a Deserted Medieval Village. (Nothing visible on available aerial photographs (RAF 1946)). (4)
Documentary references: 1295, 1336, 1346, 1821. The site of Kaiseley (the western part of Little Ryle township in the 17th century) may be identified with the turf-covered foundations of a long partitioned rectangular house 26m x 6m at NU 014100. (5)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1957; D A Davies
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