Ketton Bar garrison

The largest blockhouse, with eleven men of all ranks under a serjeant behind a coursed wall with a tower, well, chained gate and two light guns never fired. It holds the northern road where the carriers turn and is the district's front door, where strangers are first entered in a book.

The Crown blockhouse at Ketton Bar, the March's front door on the one road north, whose serjeant keeps the Ketton Bar Book. It is one of the Crown works placed where routes can be shut (others named are Stang Head, Redham Foot and Thurwell).

Named with it

• Serjeant of the Blockhouse Amos Treeton · The Ketton Bar Book
• Serjeant Amos Treeton (serjeant
• keeper of The Ketton Bar Book)

Ties

• a Crown work
• one of the Crown garrisons of the northern march
• holds a relic lent by Harrowgate Priory

At the table

Its serjeant describes his duty as standing on the line and seeing nothing crosses it. The people at the bar know who has gone up and not come down. Its gate is the only one in the march worked to a written rule. It keeps a relic lent by the priory two generations ago. Its serjeant has kept a private book beside the official one for eleven years and has shown it to four people, two of them bounty men. It carries messages to Harrowgate with the pay escort.