More information : [From NY 98726447 to NY 99066412.] It is possible to
establish the extant of the Md. settlement at Corbridge. The ground
slopes steeply to the river along the whole of the southern front.
On the east and west sides water courses, that are fast being
obliterated, run down into the Tyne. On the north side there is no
natural boundary, the ground between the heads of the water courses
is crossed by a depression which seems to have been a fosse
protecting the town upon its most vulnerable side.
It there was ever a rampart behind the ditch all trace of it has
been obliterated, the defensive works must have been slight at best;
Corbridge was never a garrison town, it had no military organisation
attached to it, and no castle - even in Norman times.
The town was probably delineated, fortified and transferred into a
burgh in the late 10th. - early 11th. cents. [See Illustrations Card
for Map Diagram.] (1)
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