Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716076

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT41NW 1 4044 1572.

(NT 4044 1572) Tower (NR - Siting symbol shown)

OS 6" map (1924)

Tower and Indeterminate Remains, Wester Alemoor. This tower, which stood on the high left bank of the Ale Water about a quarter of a mile below Alemoor Loch, is represented only by grass-grown mounds. Immediately south of these, however, there is a much-broken earthwork, measuring 7 yds from N to S by 10 yds from E to W and resembling a gun-position of the 17th. century.

In 1511 the lands of Alemere, "cum turre", etc., then in the county of Selkirk, were included in a grant to Adam Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell.

(J B Paul 1984)

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1931

The remains of this tower and possible gun-position have now been completely destroyed by a new road . Local enquiries revealed that nothing of interest was known to have been discovered in the course of the work, but much stone had been lifted out and re-used.

Visited by OS (RDL) 11 July 1962