More information : NU 0355 0059. Bastle at Newtown. (1)
The ruined walls of the only remaining bastle house of the hamlet, stand on a knoll overlooking a small stream. (2)
NU 0355 0059. The remains are of a building measuring approximately 7.0 m x 7.0 m. Part of the west and south walls remain, the other two sides being represented by turf-covered banks. The two remaining walls vary in thickness from 1.0 m. to 1.4 m. with a maximum height of 1.4 m. and are constructed largely of rubble masonry but with a few roughly dressed stones. Some of the sotnes are very large. To the south are traces of a small attached outbuilding. In the south wall and extending across most of its width is a partly buried dressed stone with a vertical rebate on each side and two square holes, one above the other, runnning E-W throuygh its thickness. The prupose of this stone is obscure but it may be part of a door jamb with draw-bar holes. The remains have features characteristic of the defended houses found in the region and which have been dated to the late 16th/early 17th centuries. The remains occur within the area of a depopulated village, (see NU 49 NE 38) Condition of bastle unchanged. Surveyed at 1/2500. (4)
NU 035005 Remains of Bastle (See Type-site NY88 SE14). (5)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (6,7) |