Blacklaw Tower. View of vault.
SC 381755
Description Blacklaw Tower. View of vault.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 381755
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 47987 CN
Scope and Content View of vaulting, Blacklaw Tower, Dumfries and Galloway In the 16th century, Blacklaw was the focus of a large medieval estate, with an assortment of barns, stores, kilns and other buildings. These extensive and impressive ruins lie some 550m north of Longbedholm steading within a forest clearing. Only the ground floor and fragments of the first floor survive, overlain by a mound of turf and rubble. Seen here is a section of the surviving ground-floor vaulting. A pair of slit windows in either end wall would have lit the vaulted basement chamber. 'Blaclau' is first recorded around 1315 in a grant by Robert I to David Lindsay. The estate subsequently passed to the Herries of Terregles, the Maxwells and finally to the Johnstones. Lesser estate centres were established at Mellingshaw and Raecleugh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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