Nether Prendwick Deserted Village (Alnham)
Prendwick deserted medieval village. (1)
Documentary references: 1242, 1318, 1336, 1377, 1554. Postulated that Nether Prendwick represented by earthworks at NU 004123, including house platforms and ridge and furrow. (2)
Centred at NU 004 124. At 150 m OD, occupying a small paddock in permanent pasture is a series of banks and earthworks [NU 0012/3-6], which probably represent the fragmentary remains of a deserted
medieval village, largely destroyed in surrounding farmland.
NU 0012/3 is a sod-cast dyke, 0.5 m high with vestigial ditches on both sides; its centre section has been obliterated by rubbish dumped upon it. It seems to have demarcated the N extremity of some broad rig cultivation [NU 0012/4] which survives well in the paddock, but which is obliterated by ploughing in the adjoining sheet to the S. The dyke seems to have turned SE from the visible W end, but this too is ploughed and reduced to a spread hump, 0.3 m high. No 5 appears to have been a rectilinear enclosure but much of this is covered by dumped rubbish. It is defined on the N, E and part of the W side by a sod-cast dyke, 2.0 m wide and 0.4 m maximum height, with a slight ditch on the inside. At the N edge of the paddock is a series of at least three ill- defined platforms [NU 0012/6] which may represent the remains of village tofts but they cannot be traced in the overgrown disused
garden to the immediate N. There may have been a village street running E-W between these platforms and enclosure 5, and this may have continued eastwards as a vague hollow way crossing Prendwick
Burn to the E of the paddock. In the pasture field to the W are the fragmentary remains of ridge
and furrow [NU 0012/7]. (3a)
Documentary references: 1242, 1318, 1336, 1377, 1554. Postulated that Nether Prendwick represented by earthworks at NU 004123, including house platforms and ridge and furrow. (2)
Centred at NU 004 124. At 150 m OD, occupying a small paddock in permanent pasture is a series of banks and earthworks [NU 0012/3-6], which probably represent the fragmentary remains of a deserted
medieval village, largely destroyed in surrounding farmland.
NU 0012/3 is a sod-cast dyke, 0.5 m high with vestigial ditches on both sides; its centre section has been obliterated by rubbish dumped upon it. It seems to have demarcated the N extremity of some broad rig cultivation [NU 0012/4] which survives well in the paddock, but which is obliterated by ploughing in the adjoining sheet to the S. The dyke seems to have turned SE from the visible W end, but this too is ploughed and reduced to a spread hump, 0.3 m high. No 5 appears to have been a rectilinear enclosure but much of this is covered by dumped rubbish. It is defined on the N, E and part of the W side by a sod-cast dyke, 2.0 m wide and 0.4 m maximum height, with a slight ditch on the inside. At the N edge of the paddock is a series of at least three ill- defined platforms [NU 0012/6] which may represent the remains of village tofts but they cannot be traced in the overgrown disused
garden to the immediate N. There may have been a village street running E-W between these platforms and enclosure 5, and this may have continued eastwards as a vague hollow way crossing Prendwick
Burn to the E of the paddock. In the pasture field to the W are the fragmentary remains of ridge
and furrow [NU 0012/7]. (3a)
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MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
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