Camp Cottage, Thorneyburn (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Herdlee

In the civil parish of Tarset.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.
Medieval County of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NY75438613
Latitude 55.16887° Longitude -2.38723°

Camp Cottage, Thorneyburn has been described as a Pele Tower although is doubtful that it was such, and also as a probable Bastle.

There are masonry footings remains.

Description

NY 75398613) An old Pele called 'Camp Cottage' (Tomlinson 1888).
Probably stood at NY 75438613 where a section of stone wall 3m high and 1.4m thick forms the east end of a building 11m by 6m which is reduced elsewhere to ground level.
The remains are probably those of a 'strong (or pele) house' (rather than a tower), which was later rebuilt, as indicated by the weaker foundations of the rest of the present building. (F1 RE 03-SEP-1970).
Ruined bastle on crest of slight east-west ridge. Building c.12.3m x (?)5.8m externally. East end of large blocks, some roughly squared, stands to 2m but partly obscured by fallen debris. Footings only of south wall (only 0.65m thick) and west end. Area around has been cleared and levelled. Site could easily be cleared of rubble and undergrowth (F2 PFR 21-JUN-1990; (Ryder 1990).
A 16th century ruined bastle, built of rubble. Just east of Camp Cottage, buried in nettles, are a few standing metres and much fallen masonry, from a bastle house (Grundy 1987). (Northumberland HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 15717.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N7002.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Tarset Archive Group
Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 287-8
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 360
  Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 95-6
  Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London: HMSO) p. 91 no. 61
  Tomlinson, W.W. 1888, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle) p. 224
Periodical Articles
- Christopherson, R., 2011, 'Northumberland bastles: origin and distribution' Medieval Settlement Research Vol. 26 p. 21-33 (listed in appendix)
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Ryder, P.F., 1990, Bastles and Towers in the Northumberland National Park (Report for Northumberland National Park Authority) p. 38
  Grundy, J., 1987, The Historic Buildings of the Northumberland National Park TAR4

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