Tyne and Wear HER(13281): Brenkley, turbary - Details
13281
Newcastle
Brenkley, turbary
Brenkley
NZ27SE
Industrial
Peat Workings
Peat Cutting
Medieval
Documentary Evidence
A turbary (right of digging peat) at Brenkley is referred to as land retained when grants were made to the monks of Newminster, Tynemouth Priory and the Nunnery of St. Bartholomew.
217
750
NZ217750
Gary Brogan and Steve Speak, 2006, Fox Covert, Archaeology in Northumberland, Northumberland County Council/Northumberland National Park, Vol. 16, page 12; Warren Muncaster, Tyne and Wear Museums, September 2007, Archive Report, Fox Covert OCCS, Dinnington, Tyne and Wear - Archaeological Excavation