A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



steeply down to the river Derwent on the north-west, but rises on the south- 

 east, and on this side there are no traces of earthworks of any kind. 



WoLsiNGHAM : Chapel Walls. — A rectangular enclosure about 220 feet 

 north to south by 200 feet east to west, surrounded by a bank and ditch, 

 with, in places, a low outer bank. The ground falls 

 slightly on all sides except the north, and the bank is 

 most prominent on the east. Along this side runs the 

 main road from Wolsingham to Lanchester, having to 

 the east of it a small stream following at this point the 

 line of the road. The north end of the enclosure has 

 been destroyed by gardens, and its former extent is 

 shown on the plan by a broken line. In the south- 

 west corner is a rectangular site which appears to mark 

 s£CT,0N* .,.A B CO. j.j^^ position of a building, and near it, in the south- 



Chapel Walls, ^ . ,, ° 



Wolsingham. WeSt angle, IS a Well. 



ANCIENT VILLAGE SITES 

 [Class H] 



Archdeacon Newton. — An irregular oblong enclosure which appears 

 to have been surrounded by a bank and ditch ; its northern boundary 

 following the line of Newton lane. The site is approximately level, measur- 

 ing some 400 yards north to south by 230 east to west ; its major axis 

 runs about north-east and south-west. The south-east angle of the enclosure 

 is occupied by buildings which are surrounded by a bank and ditch adjoining 

 and parallel to the lines of the outer defences on the south and east. On the 

 north and west sides they were probably defended in the same way, but only 

 slight traces remain. The west side of the enclosure is occupied by houses, 

 and nothing is to be seen except a bank at the north end, which stops short 

 of the line of a hedge enclosing ploughed land ; the north and east sides are 

 unoccupied, and show a series of low 

 banks running east and west and dividing 

 the area inside the outer bank into a series 

 of oblong spaces, bounded on the west 

 by another low bank running in a south- 

 westerly direction towards the north-west 

 angle of the enclosure already noticed. 



On the northern boundary of the 

 site is a sliglit rise in the ground, ap- 

 parently natural, the sides of which have 

 been cut to a regular slope, and a ditch 

 made along its southern limit. The banks 

 and ditches are everywhere slight, and 

 seem to be boundaries rather than defences, 

 and the site has no natural advantages 

 from the latter point of view. 



Kasington. — Remains, said to be of 

 the defences of a Saxon village called Yodcn, 

 are to be traced in a field near Castle lulcn. 



Archdeacon Nevvton. 



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