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Field Visit
Date July 1980
Event ID 1136871
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1136871
Black Esk, Westside NY c. 229 929 NY29SW 26
There are no visible remains of' Ally Batties' tower noted on a map of 1590 and named 'Blak Esk' in Blaeu's Atlas of 1654; 'Alie Baty of Blaikesk' is on record in 1595. Carved in relief on a slab in use as the lintel of a cottage door at Barryscaur (NY 161 907) is a shield bearing the royal arms of Scotland together with those of the Lords Maxwell and the letters A. B. The slab 'is said to have been found in 1783, underground, in the remains of an ancient building at Westside'.
RCAHMS 1980, visited July 1980.
(Blaeu 1654; Fraser 1878, ii, 254; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320, 571-2; RCAHMS 1920, pp. 113-4, No. 308)