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Low Cleughs Bastle is a defensible farmstead of late medieval date situated in the Northumberland borderlands. The structure belongs to the bastle-house tradition characteristic of the Anglo-Scottish border region, where fortified domestic buildings provided protection against raiding during the turbulent fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. As a monument type, the bastle represents the adaptation of rural communities to conditions of endemic conflict and livestock theft that required integrated domestic and defensive architecture. The site's location in the upland terrain of Northumberland reflects the typical distribution of such structures across the border region, where they served the practical needs of farming families operating in an environment of persistent military insecurity.
Low Cleughs Bastle, 580m NNE of Low Leam Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008270. View the official record →
Low Cleughs Bastle is a defensible farmstead of late medieval date situated in the Northumberland borderlands. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008270.
Low Cleughs Bastle, 580m NNE of Low Leam 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 1008270.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn, 300m south of Lowshield Green (7.1 km), Romano-British farmstead, 520m north east of Birtley Shields (7.3 km), Henge, 550m south east of Tone Hall (7.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Low Cleughs Bastle, 580m NNE of Low Leam 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.
Low Cleughs Bastle, 580m NNE of Low Leam Farm stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.