I've a Jingling Gate. If Gate is of Norse origin, and plenty of the placenames round there are, and means road or track, then I suspect Jingling Gate meant a busy route.
The land above the Wall is superb cattle country now, and will have been (also) back then. It was just the latterday Reivers that made farming unprofitable there and it seems as though the land has been stuck there since. Most has now been carpet exotic coniferised but there may also be unexplored sites on the southern fringe of Kielder Forest.
And the horizon notches, in the Great Whin Sill and visible from the Houghton Common circle, are yet uninvestigated. McDonald Fraser's book on reiving ( ? ) is a good read.
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21st February 2005ce
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