Reconstruction illustration depicting the sixteenth-century bastle house, a fortified dwelling, constructed from the ruins of the South Gate of Housesteads Roman Fort, on Hadrian's Wall. The bastle house would defend a family from border rievers.

Date:
circa 1985 - circa 2000
Location:
Housesteads Roman Fort, Bastle, Bardon Mill, Northumberland
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Housesteads Roman Fort, South Gate, Bardon Mill, Northumberland
Reference:
IC048/082
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Description

This illustration is one of a set of twelve drawings depicting Housesteads Roman Fort, created by Philip Corke, perhaps as one commission. The reverse of the board is marked 'panel 2'; this could mean that the illustrations were commissioned in order to be incorporated into interpretation panels to be placed at the site.

Content

This is part of the Volume: IC048 Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site, Cumbria/ Northumberland/ Tyne And Wear; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction And Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(Eh):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Corke, Philip

Keywords

Elizabethan Bastle