Byrness : Conclusion

One further question which might be resolved by future excavation and fieldwork concerns the location of the vaccaries recorded c.1300.

Could Byrness itself have been the site of one of these vaccaries? It is equally possible that sites higher up the tributory hopes were preferred as better situated to provide access to a wider variety of resources - from moorland top to valley bottom meadow.

A second related question concerns the ruined chapel first recorded at Birness by Warburton in 1715 (Hodgson 1916). What function if any did this play in medieval settlement and exploitation of upper Redesdale?