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| Remains of | Remains of | Thomas Rochester Esq | North of & adjoining | An ancient Fortification, occupying the | ||
| Camp | Camp | to Camp House | summit of a lofty Hill, & commanding an | |||
| Camp | Revd John E Elliot | extensive view all round the adjacent Country | ||||
| Camp | Mr Gibson | more especially to the North, it is of a circular | ||||
| Camp | Mackenzie's History of Northumberland | form and the part facing the North, is in good | ||||
| preservation, the Ramparts & Fosse being | ||||||
| sharply defined, to the south it is still pretty | ||||||
| distinct but those portions facing the east | ||||||
| & west are nearly effaced. The interior ramparts | ||||||
| being traceable, but the Fosse & Counters Camp | ||||||
| are entirely destroyed, (Mackenzie & Whellan |
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| Supposed to be Saxon | mentions this as "an old Camp", White as "a | |||||
| (reply to remark No 1) | remarkable entrenchment" while Hodgson | |||||
| o.m.o. | surmises it to be the remains of the old Manorial | |||||
| residence of the Barons of Whalton |
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| tells his readers that there are no existing | ||||||
| documents to shew that any such residence | ||||||
| ever existed. An intelligent person the | ||||||
| Librarian of this Village tells me that in | ||||||
| Hutchinson History of the Co it is mentioned | ||||||
| who were the originators of this Camp, but | ||||||
| whether Saxon or Danish he cannot | ||||||
| recollect. |
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| "Whalton – There is a remarkable camp to the east of the Village." | ||||||
| Mackenzie's History | ||||||
| John Stewart Sapper RE | ||||||
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Transcribed by PF and PT
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