New Malkin Tower?
Go out of Barley (towards Downham) and road turns up left; take right hand / straight on (Concessionary Bridle Path) and go up a few hundred yards toward to the Moss Reservoirs. Take first track/road down to left and follow through few houses and a gate to archeological site.
A house dating from the relevant period has been uncovered.under a mound of soil below Moss Reservoir. The skeleton of a cat has been found in a space behind a wall.
Well that proves it!
Archeological site in shadow of Pendle
The unearthed building
Is this the Malkin Tower, where the friends and relatives of Chattox and Demdike met, and ate the mutton, on Good Friday. It seems they met to see what they could do for the four already on their way to Lancaster Assizes? Those that met here were later accused in Court of plotting to blow up the castle - quoting the gunpowder plot of a few years earlier.
It is certainly in the right area and right direction. Are there any records/names of the house prior to being covered in soil relatively recently (judging by the grate in one room?
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