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redheugh comb waterhead gatehouse shillahill TARSET TRAIL BASTLE black mid ls, and commissioned the commissioned and ls, beenIn2006explorecatalogue. toand working wepublished an atlas of archaeological and historical sites which forms the basis of a site database. We are a small voluntary group and muchbe towork done.still there is Early in 2011 the Forestry Commission approached TAG to design an upgrade for the old reivers trail. TAG drew on its Exhibition) Bastle 2009 the in culminated (which studies bastle pane trail the produce and design to hand-paintedMike Ritchie.mapfrom working between TAG and the producing In CIC. 2050 Tarset and Forestry FC the from came funding Commission ; all this leaflet also which fund, Area Action Park National TAG is gratefulfundedthe settlement Sidwood panel . for the support Richard of Carlton of the Archaeological the Practice, and all who permitted use of photographs and drawings to illustrate the bastles. its well as as wildlifebastleofthiscountry rich were printed by Border Signs and Graphics, Dumfries; stands and way markers were made by Robin Watson Signs, Corbridge; and leaflets were printed by Robson Print, . Print, Robson by printed were leaflets and Corbridge; Tarset is full of history which Tarset Archive Group (TAG) has (TAG) Group Archive Tarset which history of full is Tarset The trail is the result of successful and enjoyable partnership Thanks are also due to everyone we’ve worked with – panels TARSETGROUPARCHIVE TARSETBASTLE TRAIL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would also like to thank everyone we consulted, especially consulted, we everyone thank to like also would We drawing of Shilla Hill byJenny ofShillaHill Purrett drawing takes you past the great great square oak trees bereaved. Settlements again fell vacant in vacant fell Settlementsagain ) increased. ) reiving are fortified farmhouses and an important part (family heads) as built of During During the reiving period, Tarset was again in the (reave) meant to rob or plunder, then became TARSET BASTLE TRAIL heidsmen finest examples of the valley’s bastles. There is on key and a map see - directions and lengths various of routes, choice of centrepage. RAIDS Nearly Wars. Border the during been had it as just line, front all the bastles you can see along attacked. this trail were repeatedly livestock. of quantity large a away driving and prisoners 30 taking many parts of as the Laird of Buccleuch, Keeperyears ofmany was It assaults. fierce lead to continued Liddesdale, after the accession of James 1 in returnedTarset. to 1603 before peace finally REIVE inthe as current with loss, associated BASTLES early and 16th late the in built were They heritage. Tarset’s of 17th centuries when protection was needed for local people oftheboth Border. from sides raiders against By the mid 16th century, after valleys the in hundreds established been had farmsteads warfare, Border of years of fierce tributaries. ofthemajor TyneNorthofits River most and land on established were settlements permanent these of Some previously used for summer increasing population and grazing. a deteriorating climate meant that Pressure survival became from more difficult. an At the same time ( raiding cross-border local and of houses the describes century previous the in Borders the of the (1541).with turfearthandroofs the of dwellings domestic stone-built local first the are Bastles a as used later were they cases most In period. post-medieval None walls. dry-stone and buildings other for stone of source form. original inits survives On 30th August 1583, Kinmont Willie with some 300 other Originally, Originally, the buildings were of wood. A report on the state The come. to worse far There was Armstrongs sacked eight farmsteads in Tarset, killing six people, six killing Tarset, in farmsteads eight sacked Armstrongs Highfield

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High Boughthill Trail Map ©Mike Ritchie 2011

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Trail Key Access Information Please follow the Countryside Code Ÿ -Boghead-Black Access Allowed - You are Ÿ be safe - plan ahead and follow any Middens-Greenhaugh welcome to explore bastles marked signs in red on the map. These are open circuit (13 kms / 8 miles) Ÿ to the public. leave gates, property and animals as Sidwood-Boghead-Black Please remember that the masonry is you find them (if you think any animal Middens-Sidwood circuit old and mostly ruined so be careful not or bird looks abandoned, please leave (7 kms / 4 miles) to damage it - or yourself. it where it is and let somebody know) Ÿ Ÿ protect plants and animals, and take Black Middens - Boghead - No Access - Bastles marked in grey your litter home Hill House - Black Middens on the map are on private property. circuit (6 kms / 3¾ miles) They are not open to the public. Ÿ keep dogs under close control at all Some can easily be seen from the times and especially at lambing time bastle site open to the public road as you pass. Others are little more than a few stones, or have Ÿ consider other people, especially bastle site private and not been incorporated into people’s farmers and others working in the open to the public houses. area