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Originally Posted by Coquet
I wonder if it had a cemetery associated with it ? if so it will have been destroyed too.
Sometimes I wonder if opencasting is worth what we lose - the Widdrington-Chevington-Radcliffe areas may as well have been hit by some giant meteorite - it's an absolute sterile history-less place now. (apart from this little gem of course)
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English Heritage, Pastscape, makes reference to human bones having been found there, that a grave slab forms the threshold of a door leading from the courtyard into a stable and a portion of a stone coffin is used in one of the windows. They also refer to the opencast destroying an earthwork moat and a pond.