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Field Visit
Date September 1992
Event ID 1155768
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1155768
NY 237 910 NY29SW 25
The wasted remains of a small tower-house and the grass-grown wall-footings of its associated buildings are situated on a broad natural shelf overlooking the farmsteading of Tanlawhill (NY29SW 91.00) some 250m to the N. The tower-house, which is adjoined on the SE by a rectangular enclosure, has been so extensively robbed that its exact dimensions cannot be determined, and it now appears as a rectangular structure about 9m across defined by a band of mortared wall-core up to 0.5m high. Immediately to the NW three rectangular buildings have been loosely ranged to create a rudimentary yard, and to the rear of these a further three buildings have been set end-on to the hillslope which defines the W limit of the natural shelf. On the N the site is bounded by five contiguous turf-banked enclosures, the largest containing the footings of four rick-stances and a later circular stell and adjoined on the S by a seventh building; a kiln has been set into the hillslope to the W. Disposed around the periphery of the site there are a number of small quarry pits.
Visited by RCAHMS (PC), September 1992
Listed as tower and farmstead.
RCAHMS 1997
