Newtown Bastle, Tosson
Has been described as a Certain Bastle
There are masonry footings remains
| Name | Newtown Bastle, Tosson |
| Alternative Names | Newtown near Rothbury |
| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Tosson |
The ruined walls of the only remaining bastle house of the hamlet, stand on a knoll overlooking a small stream (Dixon 1903).
NU 03550059 The remains are of a building measuring approx 7m x 7m. Part of the west and south walls remain, the other two sides being represented by turf-covered banks. The two remaining walls vary in thickness from 1m to 1.4m with a maximum height of 1.4m and are constructed largely of rubble masonry but with a few roughly dressed stones. Some of the stones are very large. To the south are traces of a small attached outbuilding. In the south wall and extending across most of its width is a partly buried dressed stone with a vertical rebate on each side and two square holes, one above the other, running east-west through its thickness. The purpose of this stone is obscure but it may part of a door jamb with drawbar holes. The remains have features characteristic of the defended houses found in the region and which have been dated to the late 16th/early 17th century. The remains occur within the area of a depopulated village (F1 EG 07-FEB-1957).
The fragmentary remains comprise the footings of an east-west wall including rebated west jamb of a doorway, with a drawbar tunnel, and at its west end a later length of wall running north. Insufficient remains to allow the building to be identified as a bastle, but it seems likely it was a defensible building of some sort (Ryder 1990). (Northumberland HER)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NU035005 |
| Latitude | 55.2994003295898 |
| Longitude | -1.9456399679184 |
| Eastings | 403550 |
| Northings | 600590 |
