Editing Low Coniscliffe (section)

==Archaeological sites and finds==
[[File:High Coniscliffe 065.jpg|thumb|right|Bowes memorial]]
[[File:Low Coniscliffe 010.jpg|thumb|right|Baydale Beck Inn]]
A [[Paleolithic|Palaeolithic]] [[knapping|axehead]] was found somewhere in the area.<ref name="KeysAxehead">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7800|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe; Axehead (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616201839/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7800|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> [[Roman currency|Roman coins]] were found in 1856 and 1978 in Cocker Beck, and the later finds were dated 308–346&nbsp;AD.<ref name="KeysRomancoins">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1531|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe, Cocker Beck; Roman coins found. (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616201902/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1531|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> [[Antony Bek (bishop of Durham)|Bishop Bek]] ordered a tower to be built in Low Coniscliffe in the 13th century; the site is unknown, but it may be the site of the [[manor house]].<ref name="KeysTowersite">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1582|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe; site of tower. (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616201926/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1582|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> There is an unknown site of a [[gallows]], pre−1293&nbsp;AD, south of the [[River Tees|Tees]], and west of Howden Hill Farm.<ref name="KeysGallows">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7801|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe; Gallows (Low Coniscliffe)|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202005/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7801|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> The extreme south−west end of the present built−up area of the village is probably the site of the old [[Middle Ages|medieval]] manor house, 1066–1540. The site includes [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthwork]] enclosures, and a 1960s excavation revealed a 15th–16th century round [[dovecote]].<ref name="Keysmanorhouse">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1580|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe; site of manor house. (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202125/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D1580|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> There is supposed to be another dovecote here; location unknown.<ref name="KeysDovecote">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7799|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=High Conniscliffe; Dovecote (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202203/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D7799|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> The house at the south−west end of the village, numbers 55–57, is a 17th-century [[listed building]]: a roughcast [[brick and rubble]] structure with a [[Tile#Roof tiles|pantiled]] roof. This is a pair of houses; once a farmhouse with a cottage on the right.<ref name="KeysListedbuilding">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D11295|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Low Coniscliffe, 55–57; Listed building (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202237/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D11295|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref> Well Bank House, number 20 near the south−east corner of the village, is a listed building dated around the late 18th to early 19th century. Like numbers 55–57 it is built of roughcast rubble with a pantiled roof, and this building contains a 19th-century iron [[kitchen stove|range]].<ref name="KeysListedBuilding2">{{cite web|url=http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D11106|title=Keys to the past|year=2010|work=Well bank house; Listed building (Low Coniscliffe)|publisher=DCC|access-date=6 April 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616202301/http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D11106|archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref>