MONUMENT NO. 19119

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Site of a fortified house documented in 1289 and demolished in 1897 at Barrasford, but no visible remains survive.

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Bastle (supposed) at Barrasford. (Authority (a) consulted but contains no reference to a bastle). (1)

There is no local knowledge of or any remains of a Bastle, in Barrasford. (2)

It is not clear what sort of fortified house existed at Barrasford. An unidentified `head man' lived in the head house which was burnt down by the Scots before 1289 and replaced by a new, fortified dwelling. This was extended by the Heron family in the 16th century, but was replaced by the present building in 1897. Some stones and slabs from the original building have been incorporatee into the new building. Listed by Dodds. (3)

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( 1) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham (R.N. Hadcock) 16, 1939 Page(s)165

( 1a) Northumberland County History

(J.C. Hodgson) 4, 1897 Page(s)315

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 10.02.56

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

Page(s)351-2

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