Brig Bastle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; The Brigg

In the civil parish of Corsenside.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

This bastle dates to the late C16 or early C17 and is built of characteristically large irregular stone blocks. It has a massive plinth made of boulders around its base. The bastle measures about 12m by 7m and has walls about 1.1m thick. The upper parts of the wall were rebuilt in C18 and few original features are visible on the outside of the building. The bastle now forms part of a C19 farmhouse.

This site has been described as a;
Bastle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY89128971

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 16984

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N7960

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N7960
    http://www.sine.newcastle.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=233
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p324
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p117 [slight]
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2
    Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London) p94 no.79
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1995. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland, Part 4 Tynedale District Vol1 p61