Barmkin
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Barmkin, also spelled barmekin or barnekin, is a Scots word which refers to a form of medieval and later defensive enclosure, typically found around smaller castles, tower houses, pele towers, and bas
Smailholm Tower, showing the barmkin wall in the foreground
Bastle house
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Bastle, bastel or bastille houses are a type of construction found along the Anglo-Scottish border, in the areas formerly plagued by border reivers. They are fortified farmhouses, characterised by sec
Barmkin
…a Scots word which refers to a form of medieval and later defensive enclosure, typically found around smaller castles, tower houses, pele towers, and bastle houses in Scotland and the north of England. It has been suggested that etymologically the word may be a corruption of the word barbican or berm. The barmkin…
Rebellion House at High Callerton near Ponteland – a simple bastle house a long way south of the border
Woodhouses Bastle
Black Middens Bastle, Northumberland
Microcosm of London Plate 094 Westminster Hall edited