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© Leslie Garland Pictures
Photographer: | Leslie Garland | |||
Collection: | Northumberland | |||
Filename: | LG 0161 |
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Upload Date: | 2008-09-21 12:14:40 | |||
Photo Size: | 2.8mb 3449x2533 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Group looking at the ruins of a Bastle House, Tarsetvalley, Northumberland, England, UK.These houses, were fortified farm houses, where animals could be locked in on the ground floor and the people barricade themselves in on the upper floor after first pulling up a ladder, where common in the Northumberland border area during the Reiver period. |
Keywords: | English fortified house dwelling defense defence farming defence cattle rustling Border Reivers lawless raids overgrown ruins ruin archeology Bastle House Tarset valley Northumberland England |