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Hole Row Tower, Shotley Low Quarter

Has been described as a Questionable Pele Tower, and also as a Questionable Bastle

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

Name	Hole Row Tower, Shotley Low Quarter
Alternative Names	Holes; Hole Raive; Whole Row; The Raw; North Holerow; South Holerow; Holrain; Little Haw; Hollorain
Historic Country	Northumberland
Modern Authority	Northumberland
1974 Authority	Northumberland
Civil Parish	Shotley Low Quarter

C19 local historian E MacKenzie states that there was a small tower at Hole Row, but there are no documentary references to one, and no survey includes it. However, on the south side of the estate are markings in the grass which suggest that MacKenzie was correct, and locals believe that a small tower was knocked down to provided stone to build a barn. (PastScape ref. Dodds)

Gatehouse Comments

Gatehouse can not find the original reference in either volume of MacKenzie's View of the county of Northumberland. Was this a reference to a 'pele' or specifically to a tower? If a 'pele' then this could be the site of a pele-house (i.e. a bastle) although this is outside the main area of pele-houses.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

1387981

County Historic Environment Record

www.northumberland.gov.uk/Planning/Conservation/Archaeology.aspx

OS Map Grid Reference	NZ075507
Latitude	54.8522911071777
Longitude	-1.8832700252533
Eastings	407500
Northings	550700