Keepwick (Wall)
(NY 95267134) Village (Site of). (1)
(NY 951714) Depopulated village at Kepwick in Cocklaw. 'Foundations of ancient buildings' may be traced in the field east of the present farm. (2)
A typical area of depopulation, bounded by an earthen bank, and containing a few building steadings. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Keepwick was a vill in the regality of Hexham. The Priory of Hexham built a tithe barn there in the 13th century. Seven taxpayers recorded there in the 1296 Lay Subsidy. Plundered by the Scots in the late 14th century.
Described as a hamlet in 1538. A survey of 1548 valued the vill at only half the amount it had been worth before the Scottish raids of 1408-23. There were still open fields in Keepwick in 1632. Only two houses were recorded there in the Hearth Tax of 1666. Armstrong's map showed two farmsteads there. Today one steading and three cottages remain.
The cottages and farm buildings stand on the site of the village. There are prominent but confused earthworks, defined by ridge and furrow on the perimeter. The site is aligned east-west. Several house sites and enclosure banks are visible east of the farmstead, although much has been destroyed by the cottages and quarrying. The narrowness of the settlement area suggests that it may have comprised a single row of tenements facing north. (5)
Deserted medieval village of Kepwick. (6)
Medieval boundary banks, platforms, enclosures, ditches, hollows and buildings are visible as earthworks on air photographs centred at NY 9528 7134. The features represent the remains of the deserted settlement of Kepwick. A system of boundary banks divides the village into irregular units of land. A number of platforms and enclosures are visible. At NY 9534 7130 are the probable remains of a line of buildings. To the east are a series of broad, fragmentary banks. These are overlain by medieval ridge and furrow. Other areas of medieval ridge and furrow can also be seen in direct association with the earthworks. (7a-b)
General association with HER 31421. (7)
(NY 951714) Depopulated village at Kepwick in Cocklaw. 'Foundations of ancient buildings' may be traced in the field east of the present farm. (2)
A typical area of depopulation, bounded by an earthen bank, and containing a few building steadings. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
Keepwick was a vill in the regality of Hexham. The Priory of Hexham built a tithe barn there in the 13th century. Seven taxpayers recorded there in the 1296 Lay Subsidy. Plundered by the Scots in the late 14th century.
Described as a hamlet in 1538. A survey of 1548 valued the vill at only half the amount it had been worth before the Scottish raids of 1408-23. There were still open fields in Keepwick in 1632. Only two houses were recorded there in the Hearth Tax of 1666. Armstrong's map showed two farmsteads there. Today one steading and three cottages remain.
The cottages and farm buildings stand on the site of the village. There are prominent but confused earthworks, defined by ridge and furrow on the perimeter. The site is aligned east-west. Several house sites and enclosure banks are visible east of the farmstead, although much has been destroyed by the cottages and quarrying. The narrowness of the settlement area suggests that it may have comprised a single row of tenements facing north. (5)
Deserted medieval village of Kepwick. (6)
Medieval boundary banks, platforms, enclosures, ditches, hollows and buildings are visible as earthworks on air photographs centred at NY 9528 7134. The features represent the remains of the deserted settlement of Kepwick. A system of boundary banks divides the village into irregular units of land. A number of platforms and enclosures are visible. At NY 9534 7130 are the probable remains of a line of buildings. To the east are a series of broad, fragmentary banks. These are overlain by medieval ridge and furrow. Other areas of medieval ridge and furrow can also be seen in direct association with the earthworks. (7a-b)
General association with HER 31421. (7)
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FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1961; W D Johnston
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; D King
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1966; D King
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
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