Bradley Green Deserted Medieval Village
Description:
12250*0 Bradley Green lies in a field on the S facing slope of a hill leading down to the Bradley Burn and is noted for its medieval and post-medieval remains. The settlement is largely made up of strip field systems containing broad ridge and furrow and a number of earthwork enclosures, some of which may be building foundations. An incised trackway runs down the W side and is possibly medieval. The remains of what is certainly a Bastle house can be found in the NE of the main field associated with a smaller structure to the east. An eighteenth century corn drying kiln lies to the S on the slope overlooking the burn. The field has been much quarried, presumably for wall and road building material. A collapsed late eighteenth century Enclosure period wall runs north through the site.
On 5th and 6th September 1306 Edward I stayed at a Bradley Hall on his way along the Stanegate to Carlisle during his final Scottish campaign (Hodgson 1840, 326). It is believed that the medieval remains at Bradley Green were occupied by the bondmen of the owner of Bradley Hall in the late 13th/early 14th century. Occupation was short lived, however, as climatic deterioration and the Black Death brought about an end to the permanent occupation of the uplands of Britain in the mid-14th century.
Limited occupation from the mid-16th to the late 17th century was in the form of Bastle Houses, two-storey fortified farmhouses with a lower room, or byre, for livestock and an upper room for people, unique in the British Isles (Ramm et al. 1970, 61-73). Corn-drying kilns are associated with the move towards the permanent occupation of the uplands in the late 17th century (ibid, 44-6).
Country: England
County: Northumberland
District: Tynedale
Parish: Bardon Mill
Grid Reference:
NY779676
Map Reference:
[EPSG:27700] 377953, 567618
Period: 1550 - 1350, 1250 - 1350, 1650
Subject: DESERTED SETTLEMENT, BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW, BASTLE, CORN DRYING KILN
Identifiers:
[ADS] Depositor Id: 12250*0
[ADS] Associated Id: HBSMR Id: MNA111424
[ADS] Import RCN: NTSMR-MNA111424
People Involved:
[Publisher] National Trust
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