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Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees is a fortified farmhouse dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, located in Northumberland. The structure represents the bastle house type, a building form characteristic of the English-Scottish borderlands designed to provide defensive accommodation for farming families and their livestock during periods of cross-border raiding. The bastle typically features stone construction with a vaulted ground floor for sheltering animals and living quarters on the upper storey, a practical response to the endemic warfare and lawlessness of the border region during the early modern period. Such monuments testify to the sustained military pressure experienced by rural communities in this area until the stabilisation of the Anglo-Scottish border in the early seventeenth century.
Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016712. View the official record →
Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees is a fortified farmhouse dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, located in Northumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016712.
Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1016712.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Birky Burn settlement (5.9 km), Romano-British farmstead, 650m ENE of Wolf Crag (6.9 km), Ant Hills (burial mounds), Monkridge (7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bastle 80m north east of Fallowlees stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.