Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710979

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT09SW 1 11194 04391

(NT 1119 0439) Cornal Tower (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1898-1938).

Location formerly entered as NT 1119 0439.

Cornal Tower was granted early in the 15th century to Carruthers of Mousewald afterwards held by Johnstone of Coreheard, and owned of late times by the Duke of Queensberry.

Name Book 1857.

The ruins of Cornal Tower stand on a plateau on the steep edge of the Cornal Burn. The tower stood at the eastern extremity of the site and has evidently been of 16th century date. Only a portion of the north wall is now left, 12 feet, 6 inches long, 12 feet high, and 5 feet thick. Twenty-nine feet west of the tower is an outbuilding.

RCAHMS 1920.

Generally as described above. The standing section of wall is at the SE corner of the tower, the remainder of which consists of thickly overgrown footings as does the outbuilding which lies to the NW. Name confirmed.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (D W R) 30 November 1971.

Cornal Tower [NR] (remains of) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1988.

The neck of a wooded promontory (35m long by 20m wide) above the Cornal Burn bears footings of a building (about 14m long by 6.5m wide). One fragment remains standing of a shorter building which has probably formed a tower in the middle of this area.

Cornal belonged to the Carruthers family and later passed to the Douglasses.

M Salter 1993.