MONUMENT NO. 19440

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Site of a bastle, once known as the Bolt House. The date of construction of the bastle is unknown and no trace of the structure is now visible above ground.

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(NY 99848453) Bolt House (L.B.) (Site of). (1)

The only remaining peel at Kirkwhelpington is called the Bolt House and consists (in 1827) of a byre or cow-house below with family apartments, on a boarded floor, above. Access to the upper part is by an outside stone stairs and to the lower part by doorway under the landing of the stairs. (2)

The site occurs in a pasture field and on the summit of a slight
rise. No visible remains. Hodgson's description, however, is that of a typical bastle, rather than a peel. (3)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (4,5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1057 48

( 2) General reference

Hist of Northum pt II 1 1827 189 (Hodgson)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 EG 16-APR-56

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

Page(s)242

(5) 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)350

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