The Gatehouse website record for Hallgarth, Sedbergh

In the civil parish of Sedbergh. In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

A 'rectangular elevation' at Hallgarth was levelled in 1890 exposing building foundations, a masonry-lined well, a coin of Henry VII, plain red earthen ware sherds, etc., The clay in the hollow in front of the elevation suggested a moat. A bulldozer levelling in Hall Garth in 1957, cracked the covering slab of a well containing late Medieval pottery. C14 jug base and other Medieval potsherds were among surface finds elsewhere in the field. Hall Garth has been levelled an is now used as a playing field. All trace of the former building platform has been destroyed but the recorded finds from the site are displayed in the Sedbergh School Museum. A pecked outline of a rectangular ditch shown on the OS 6" map of 1854 at SD 65999143, suggests the site of a moat. (SMR record)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD65999143

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 44174
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MYD3615 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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