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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710576
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710576
NT13NE 19.00 17298 36660
NT13NE 19.01 Centred NT 1785 3678 Walled Garden
NT13NE 19.02 NT 1725 3664 Stables
NT13NE 19.03 NT 1727 3663 Ice-house
NT13NE 19.04 NT 1760 3695 Bridge (formerly NT13NE 35)
NT13NE 19.05 Centred NT 1732 3694 Garden, including water garden
NT13NE 19.06 NT 17754 36749 Garden Bridge
See also NT13NE 51 NT 17793 36828 Garden Lodge
NT13NE 82 NT 18382 37983 Easter Knowes Farm
There was a tower at Hillhouse. In listing the towers along the Tweed, for 10 miles above and 10 miles below Peebles, the entry seems to suggest that the Hillside tower lay between those of Easter Dawic (NT13NE 8) and Wester Dawic, now New Posso. (?)
W Dalgleish 1794.
Stobo Castle was erected on the site of "Hill House" in 1805-11.
J W Buchan and H Buchan 1927
No further information.
Visited by OS(DWR) 8 August 1972
The 19th century castle and surrounding area is visible on vertical air photographs (OS 72/375/1060-2, flown 1972).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) April 1992
