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Bastle at The Raw Farm is a fortified farmhouse located in Northumberland, dating to the early modern period. The structure represents the defensive architecture typical of the Anglo-Scottish border region, where such buildings combined domestic and protective functions to counter the threat of raids and cattle theft. The bastle's design incorporates thick walls and a ground floor constructed to withstand attack, with residential quarters situated above, a layout characteristic of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Northumbrian border fortifications. This monument provides material evidence of the militarised agricultural society that existed along the English border during the period of Anglo-Scottish conflict.
Bastle at The Raw Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008889. View the official record →
Bastle at The Raw Farm is a fortified farmhouse located in Northumberland, dating to the early modern period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008889.
Bastle at The Raw Farm 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 1008889.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mote Hills motte and bailey castle (4.5 km), Defended settlement, 700m north of Overacres (5.5 km), Defended settlement, 470m south west of Haining (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bastle at The Raw Farm'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 at The Raw Farm stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.