The Gatehouse website record for Piercebridge

In the civil parish of High Coniscliffe. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Durham, 1974 county of County Durham).

Butler suggests a low mound here is a potential castle site. I'm not certain as to what Butler is referring but I suspect, based on the sketch map in the article, he might mean a mound described as "Probable Bronze Age round barrow surviving as a plough-reduced earthwork. Slightly elongated mound, probably a large bowl barrow, measuring 38.5m in north to south diameter and 3m high and 42m in east to west diameter and 1.7m high, with no visible ditch" This seems a very unlikely castle site to me as it would be easier to build a castle within the Roman fort of Piercebridge where a settlement did exist and which was better sited to control the crossing.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ21881601

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 23710
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D1555 '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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