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| Sewingshields Crags | Sewingshields Crags | Mr. Errington. F. Sewing Shields | 48 Chains S W of | A Cliff of Basaltic rocks forming a natural support | ||
| Sewingshields Crags | Mr W Taylor Upper Town | the Camp | to the Roman Wall, which is at various distances | |||
| Sewingshields Crags | Mr J Dixon Coldknuckles | from the rocks. the cliffs extends west | ||||
| from Sewingshields (farmhouse) | ||||||
| Sewingshields Castle | Sewingshields Castle | Mr Errington | 29 Chains West of the | The site of an ancient Castle situated in an | ||
| (Site of) | (Site of) | Camp | arable field north of Sewingshields farmhouse. a great | |||
| Sewingshields Castle | Mr W Taylor | quantity of the stone which formed the Castle have | ||||
| (Site of) | been used in the erection of the wall which surrounds | |||||
| Sewingshields Castle | Mr J Dixon | the site of the ancient structure. I was unable to obtain | ||||
| (Site of) | any information more than a Castle occupied the | |||||
| Site Shewn on Traces | ||||||
| "About 3 furlongs further west and about the same | ||||||
| distance north ot the Wall is the site of Sewingshields Castle, no | ||||||
| remains are now to be seen except traces of a ditch on the North | ||||||
| and East , and some excavations like Ponds" McLauchlan Memoir of | ||||||
| Roman Wall P 37 | ||||||
| Hodgson Vol 2. " on the flats to the North of the | ||||||
| Crags there formerly stood the | ||||||
| Border Fortress Sewingshields Castle, but it is now | ||||||
| entirely removed" | ||||||
| Hemmel Rigg | Hemmel Rigg | Mr Errington | 15 Chains North East | An eminence north of | ||
| Hemmel Rigg | Mr W Taylor | of the Camp | Sewingshields Crags | |||
| Hemmel Rigg | Mr J Dixon | |||||
| John Davison Sapper Royal Engineers | ||||||
Note: correction initialled J D $RE$
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