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Glenochar Burn is a bastle house with associated post-medieval settlement and field system located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The bastle, a fortified farmhouse type characteristic of the Anglo-Scottish border region, sits on bedrock of the Shinnel and Glenlee Formations, Ashgill-period wacke that has weathered to provide the stone for local building. This defensible dwelling represents the response of rural communities to the insecurity of the post-medieval period, when raids and cattle theft posed persistent threats to lowland farming settlements.
The monument complex encompasses not only the bastle house itself but also the wider landscape of habitation and agriculture that sustained it. The associated field system reveals how medieval and post-medieval communities managed their land, with ridge-and-furrow cultivation patterns visible in the surrounding terrain. The integration of fortification with productive farming demonstrates the dual necessity of security and subsistence in this period.
The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM5385, recognising its importance to understanding settlement patterns, domestic architecture and land use in post-medieval Lanarkshire. The surviving physical remains contribute to the archaeological record of how rural communities adapted their buildings and landscape to the particular challenges of their time and place.
Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5385. View the official record →
Glenochar Burn is a bastle house with associated post-medieval settlement and field system located in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5385.
Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5385.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Watermeetings,platform settlement 450m W of (1 km), Crookedstane,platform settlement 1300m W of (1.4 km), Air Cleuch,cairns 1300m S of Glengeith (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system'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.
Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system stands on Shinnel Formation And Glenlee Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is wacke.