HUMBLETON, a township in the parish of DODDINGTON,
eastern division of GLENDALE ward, county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Wooler,
containing 184 inhabitants. On a rising ground near
Humbleton-Bourn is an ancient encampment, called
Green Castle; and on a hill in the vicinity is a circular
intrenchment, with a large cairn: the declivity of the
hill forms several terraces, each twenty feet deep, rising
one above another. A pillar of stone has been set up
on the plain, in commemoration of a great battle
fought in 1402, when ten thousand Scots under Earl
Douglas, who had previously plundered the country as
far as Newcastle, were totally defeated by Lord Percy
and the Earl of March: the field is still termed Redriggs,
a name derived from the sanguinary nature of
the conflict. A stone coffin, enclosing the remains of a
gigantic skeleton and an urn, was discovered here in
1811.