MONUMENT NO. 4481

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A documentary source of the early 19th century refers to a number of 'bastile buildings' scattered through Rothbury Forest. No trace of any such structure survives today. The last may have been Bog Hall, demolished some time before 1903.

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Bastle at Bog Hall (not located). (1)

In a description of Rothbury Forest a century ago (c.1803), the so-called Forest was stated to be dotted over with "Bastile buildings". Not one of these strong houses remains at the present day. The last was probably Bog Hall, which was demolished some years ago. (2)

All remembrance of the name Bog Hall appears to have vanished. Repeated enquiries in the district around Rothbury and in the town itself revealed no knowledge of the name nor of the bastle. (3)

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

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

16, 1939 Page(s)181

( 2) General reference

Upper Coquetdale 1903 473 (D Dixon)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 06-FEB-57

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

Page(s)194-5

(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)352

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