Woodhouses Bastle
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Description
"A bastle is a fortified farmhouse with an upper living area above a vaulted storage basement. The original doorway and windows provided defence against border raiders. Over 1000 bastles were built in the Borders between 1500 and 1700 http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRNMAP=N1192 The big house to the right is Holystone Grange." Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2009. -
Owner
Andrew Curtis -
Source
Geograph (Geograph) -
License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1485031
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 8 years, 2 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2009-09-11 -
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