Bog Head Bastle, Thorneyburn

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Bartys Pele; Corbie; Corbys Castle, Comb; Borbie Castle

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

Bastle, also known as Barty's Peel, probably of mid-late C16 date, surviving as a ruined building. Large blocks of random rubble. Walls standing from c.8-15ft high, c.57 inches thick. Ground-floor doorway, in north gable end, has alternating-block surround with rounded arrises, and relieving arch of which only one voussoir remains. A slit window in the south gable end. Inside the doorway is rebated and has hole for harr post and drawbar tunnels. The springing of the vault remains. To the east of the bastle are the remains of two rectangular farmsteads, one of two rooms which survives as an earthwork and one of three rooms which has partly upstanding stone walls. There are also the remains of a curvilinear sheepfold.

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.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 239744)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY76159099

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; 15855

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N7066

• Web site links
  • http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_north/80/bogheadbastle.htm
    http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N7066
    http://www.sine.newcastle.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=70
• Books
  • Ryder, Peter, 2004, 'Towers and bastles in Northumberland National Park' in Frodsham, P., Archaeology in Northumberland National Park (CBA Research report 136) p262-271
    Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p300-1
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p117 [slight]
    Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p138
    Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p43
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p360
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p116
    Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London) p91, no.62
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p59
    Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1940, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol15 p271