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Smithwood is a bastle house located approximately 900 metres south-west of Daerside in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Bastles are fortified farmhouses characteristic of the Anglo-Scottish border regions and adjacent areas, typically dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, constructed to provide defence against raids and livestock theft during a period of considerable frontier instability. The structure exemplifies the functional architecture of these defended settlements, combining domestic and defensive purposes within a compact, sturdy stone-built form. Smithwood's survival as a designated monument preserves an important record of rural defensive architecture and settlement patterns in early modern southern Scotland.
Smithwood, bastle house 900m SW of Daerside is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5647. View the official record →
Smithwood is a bastle house located approximately 900 metres south-west of Daerside in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5647.
Smithwood, bastle house 900m SW of Daerside 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 SM5647.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wintercleugh,bastle house 1000m S of Tomont Hill (3.1 km), Watermeetings,platform settlement 450m W of (3.9 km), Glenochar Burn,bastle house,post-medieval settlement & field system (4.9 km).
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