Field Visit
Date February 1996
Event ID 1130053
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1130053
Mangerton Tower measures 10.4m from NE to SW by 7.7m transversely over a wall 1.55m in thickness. At the W corner, which has been rebuilt recently, the wall stands up to 2.8m high, but on the NE and SE it is reduced to grass-grown footings. The interior is filled with rubble, again grass-grown, and there is a pile of rubble against the SE wall that may be the remains of an external stair. An armorial panel has been inserted into the outer face of the wall on the NW. It is enclosed by a roll moulding (missing along the bottom edge and on the lower left side) and bears the date 1563, below which there is a shield displaying, on the left, a chevron over a lozenge and, on the right, a sword flanked by the initials SA and EF. The tower is now in the care of the Armstrong Clan Trust.
(LID96 41)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) February 1996
