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"Trench cut across southern end of Wranglands field near hedge, revealed metalled cambered road approximately 20 feet wide - 6/4/1955" (S1).

On Basil Brown's map near this location K Blood has written black earth and records, "Black patches seen, also worked flint and Rom and Sax sherds.

Site of a former green.

Mill mound.

Two ring ditches visible on Air Photographs (R1).

1994: small Med scatter of metal detected metalwork, includes two silver short-cross coins (not seen?) and bronze shield shaped flat enamelled mount.

Wreck, upright

1369 or 1370 wreck of Flemish cargo vessel which stranded in Kirkley Roads on her passage from Sluis to Scotland. Laden with unspecified goods, she was a wooden sailing vessel. The surviving Scottish merchants claimed that their goods had been illega...

1322 wreck of English cargo vessel which was wrecked near Kirkley while bound to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed with wheat and wine "for the King's forces". It appears likely that this was intended for Edward II's campaign against the Sco...

1417 wreck of Flemish cargo vessel, probably a hulk, which stranded near Kirkley in a storm. En route from Flanders to Kingston-upon-Hull and/or York with a general cargo, she was a wooden sailing vessel, and if a hulk, likely to have been clinker-bu...