Glenochar Bastle and Fermtoun Trail

Bastle houses were built for protection against the lawless bands of Border Reivers or raiders during the late 16th and 17th centuries.

Feuding families on both sides of the Border fuelled the lawlessness. Apart from the story of the 17th century defensible farmhouses (bastles) new evidence has been gathered here for life on the Fermtoun during the 17th and early 18th centuries in the Southern Uplands of Scotland

The Fermtoun site comprises the bastle house and other buildings - mainly byres and a small cairn.
The trail also leads to several Bronze Age unenclosed platform settlements and a small cairn all with interpretative panels.