More information : (NY 43266743) Castle (GT) (Site of)
(NY 43336749 & 4318 6729) Moat (GT) (1)
"A few hundred yards from the house of the Dacres (Kirklinton Hall) may be traced the remains of an old mansion or castle .... From this place, it is said, many of the stones were got for building Kirklinton Hall. Between this place and the church .... there seems to have been a town. It is now tillage ground, but in many places there are pavements not above ten or twelve inches below the surface". (2)
There are no visible remains of a building of any type. The
published site is situated on a small natural hillock from which the ground falls away to the north and west. The level area to the east is traversed by a slight ditch 0.5m deep and 80.0m in length,
terminating to the north east in a small ravine. This may be the
remains of an obstructive ditch, but the two arms of a moat
(published on the 25") are no more than natural gullies.
The alleged "site of the town" falls in pasture land at NY 433672 and there are no visible remains.
Published survey 1:2500 revised. (3)
The highest land land near Stubb has locally been known as Castle Hill, the site of a strongly fortified house of the de Levington family. (4) |