Clintwood Castle
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Clintwood Castle
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Ye Clints
Canmore ID 68016
Site Number NY59SW 20
NGR NY 5382 9100
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68016
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Castleton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NY59SW 20 5382 9100.
(NY 5382 9100) Clintwood Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
A map in the British Museum, dated 1590, marks "Ye Clints" with a tower symbol.
A Jeffrey 1864
Though Maughan states that the foundations of Clintwood Castle, a Border tower, lay within a few hundred yards of homestead moat NY58NW 14, the ONB states that no traces of it now remain, the site being indicated by three local informants. (Though it is said (J Snadden 1921) that Clintwood Castle was occupied by the de Soulis family prior to their removal to Liddel Castle (NY58NW 2) in the early 13th century, it is more likely that the homestead moat would form an earlier residence, this castle, noted in 1590, being a much later erection, possibly a peel tower).
J Maughan 1868; Name Book 1858
The published site falls on a rocky eminence enclosed by a series of sheep stells. No trace of a tower was found, although several roughly dressed blocks have been incorporated in the stell walls. Dr Robson (Hawick Museum) does not dispute this site.
Visited by OS (JRL) 31 July 1979
