Pinglehole Tower

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Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Ring Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Pinglehole Tower

Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unassigned), Ring Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Pingillholls

Canmore ID 67982

Site Number NY59NE 8

NGR NY 5570 9626

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67982

Digital Images

SC 1761722

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761721

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761723

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761729

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 2473218

Pinglehole Tower, NY59NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1761726

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761727

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 2473217

Pinglehole Tower, NY59NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1761725

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761724

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

SC 1761728

Oblique aerial view of Pinglehole Tower centred on the remains of field banks, enclosures, ring-enclosures and a sheepfold, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1/12/1997

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Administrative Areas

Council Scottish Borders, The
Parish Castleton
Former Region Borders
Former District Roxburgh
Former County Roxburghshire

Archaeology Notes

NY59NE 8 c.5570 9626.

(Area centred NY 55709626) 'Pingillholls' with tower symbol on Ponts map of Liddesdale (1608).

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