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Hill House bastle is a fortified farmstead located in Northumberland, dating to the early modern period when such structures were constructed throughout the Anglo-Scottish border region. The monument comprises a bastle house, a defensive residence designed to protect against cross-border raids, together with associated agricultural enclosures that would have supported the farming activities of its occupants. Bastles of this type typically featured thick stone walls and strengthened ground floors capable of sheltering livestock and goods, with living quarters above, and represent a distinctive architectural response to the endemic lawlessness and raiding that characterised the border landscape during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The survival of both the primary structure and its field system at Hill House provides archaeological evidence for the settlement patterns and land management practices of border farming communities during this turbulent period.
Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010034. View the official record →
Hill House bastle is a fortified farmstead located in Northumberland, dating to the early modern period when such structures were constructed throughout the Anglo-Scottish border region. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010034.
Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage 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 1010034.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bastles, an 18th century farmhouse and associated enclosures at Black Middings (0.3 km), Romano-British farmstead, 330m north west of Sidwood Cottage (0.6 km), Shilla Hill bastle 350m west of Comb (0.9 km).
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