Sbc Note

Event ID 1003432

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Sbc Note

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Possible site of medieval tower of Ercildoune. A descriptive account in 1875 by Andrew Currie of Darnick, and recounted by J.A.H. Murray, describes the discovery of paving slabs and foundations made up of large hewn stones found in the location of the Victorian Gasworks in approximately 1835. Possibly the site of the Earl's of Dunbar residence in Earlston, or the medieval home of Thomas the Rhymer's family prior to the construction of the later Rhymer's Tower. Currie also felt there were two Earlston's, one on the Lauder Road (A68) north of Rhymer's Tower and, the other focussed around the Earl's Tower. The latter became modern Earlston and subsumed the other.

Information from Scottish Borders Council, August 2015