Chapel House, Knop Law, earthwork (Castle Steeds)

HER Number:
1293

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Chapel House, Knop Law, earthwork (Castle Steeds)

Place:
Chapel House

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Monument

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Enclosure?

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
In 1732 Horsley noted the existence "near the Chapel houses about a furlong south from Severus's wall, and less from Hadrian's,...the ruins of a rampart. It is usually called the Castle-steeds...it is about four chains long, with an interval in the middle, that looks like a gate...like the south rampart of a small fort". He saw no traces of ramparts on the other sides. MacLauchlan in the mid-19th century declared they were quite destroyed and their outline scarcely visible.

Easting:
180

Northing:
657

Grid Reference:
NZ180657

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1293 >> J. Horsley, 1732, Britannia Romana, 138, plan 3 J. Hodgson, 1840, History of Northumberland, Part 2, Vol. III, 281 H. MacLauchlan, 1858, Memoir written during a Survey of the Roman Wall, p. 14 note 2 G.R.B. Spain, 1930, Outlying Works North and South of the Wall, Northumberland County History, XIII, 540