Whitlees Bastle
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Whitlees Bastle by Christine Johnstone as part of the Geograph project.
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Whitlees Bastle
Image: © Christine Johnstone Taken: 26 Jul 2010
The Sites and Monuments records says 'One of the buildings on Whitlees farm seems to be a late 1500s or early 1600s strong house. It has many characteristics of a bastle, such as walls built of massive stones and a boulder plinth, as well as walls over 1.3m thick.'
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Image Location
Latitude
55.228051
Longitude
-2.064744