Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713623

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT39SW 4 30411 93161

The tower of the Tolbooth dates, as a panel on the front shows, from 1576. The tower is roughly square, with a stair-turret projecting from the NE angle, and has a forestair built against the south side. The forestair is an addition and carries a panel dated 1617. The upper part of the tower was reconstructed in the 18th century.

RCAHMS 1933.

The town hall which dates from 1617, although blown up by Cromwell's troopers, still retains its massive old tower or tolbooth.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

NT 3041 9316. The Tolbooth is as described above. It has been completely harled, showing no old masonry. The Town House, directly adjacent on the north-east has been rebuilt and is of no archaeological interest.

Visited by OS (J D) 5 October 1954.

Information as above.

W Muir 1853; G Stell 1982.