Amble Golf Course & Hillbank

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According to my Pevsners, Amble Golf Course contains a "Bronze age burial ground, comprising no less than forty graves. Revealed by accident 1857, badly excavated 1883." Can anyone throw any light on this? Indeed, is there still a golf course at Amble?

Pevsner also writes about a former manor house, name of Hillbank. He goes on: "Of the former manor house no more is visible than one wall with a c15 window (behind the R C Church, High Street)". Considering that Pevsner was writing in 1957 (possibly earlier), is this `wall` still in existence? Or has it given way (literally) to a supermarket or such like?

Incidentally, Pevsner describes Amble as "A small town singularly devoid of architectural interest." But let us draw a veil over this. He says pretty much the same about Rothbury!

Source: Nikolaus Pevsner `The Buildings Of England, Northumberland` 1957, Penguin Books.

PS. Apologies: this was meant for the board `Amble and Hauxley ` below.