MONUMENT NO. 1710

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A document of 1663 refers to a number of bastles at Bickerton. The site is currently occupied by a farmhouse and associated farm buildings. One of the internal walls of the farmhouse may represent part of an earlier structure. It is 0.9 metre thick and rises through two storeys, with later doorways inserted into it. No other evidence of a bastle is visible in or around the farmhouse.

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In 1663, four members of the Snawdon family were the owners of Bickerton (NT 995002) each family residing in their bastle house. The north wall of the present farmhouse is formed of part of one of these fortified dwellings, and several green mounts in the field adjoining denote the sites of others. (1)

NT 99590024. Bickerton comprises a farmhouse with a group of farm buildings to the south-west. The farmhouse is of a late period of construction, but has incorporated within it serving as a party wall, a wall 0.9 m in thickness which rises through the two storeys of the house. Its presence is indicated by doorways cut through on each floor. Above the lower doorway on the east side is a long narrow corbel projecting. No other remains of a preceding structure could be located in or around the present house. No mounds were found (Authority 2 refers) which could be associated with the sites of further bastles. (2)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (3,4)

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( 1) General reference

Upper Coquetdale 1903 p 34 (D Dixon)

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 07-FEB-57

(3) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

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(4) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)349

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