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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 706162
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/706162
NS77SW 2 7129 7235.
(NS 7129 7235) Tower (NR) (In ruins)
OS 6" map (1922)
Tower (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1968)
Badenheath Tower, once a strength of the Boyds, Earls of Kilmarnock (Name Book 1859) was a large fortress or peel surrounded by a moat. It is now ruinous.
T Watson 1894
Only the S half of this oblong keep remains, standing to a maximum height of 40ft (four storeys), while the N wall has been reduced to its foundations. It measures 42ft by 30ft 6ins over the walls, which are 6 to 7ft thick. It is probably of late 15th century date.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887
This tower was demolished in 1953 (owner, Badenheath Farm) and no traces of it now remain.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 February 1954
