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Old Callaly Castle Hill
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Kaloule Vet
In the civil parish of Callaly.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Iron age hill fort possibly adapted into castle by rock cut ditch by the de Callaly family in C12 or C13. There may be remains of a tower in the north west corner.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU06080971
PastScape number;
4323
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N2752
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p31
Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p38 [plan]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p366n79
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p77-8
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles p50-1
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1935, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol14 p62, 527
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p14
MacLauchlan, H., 1864. Memoir written during a survey of the eastern branch of the Watling Street (London) p53-4
Hodgson, J. and Laird, F., 1813, Beauties of England and Wales; Northumberland Vol12 p214
- Journal Articles
- Jobey, G., 1965. 'Hill Forts and Settlements in Northumberland' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol43 p43-4, 62 no.80
Hogg, A.H.A. 1947. 'A new list of the native sites of Northumberland' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle [ser4] Vol11 p165
Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p196
1891-2, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol5 p91
Home, D.M., 1856-62. History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club Vol4 p224
1889, The Monthly Chronicle; North Country Lore and Legend p296-7
- Guidebooks
- Browne, Major A.S.C., 1985, Callaly Castle, Garden and Grounds
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- 1415 Survey of Northumberland Castles and Fortalices preserved in the Harleian manuscripts
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