Archaeology Notes
Event ID 718079
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT62NW 11.00 6297 2505
(NT 6297 2505) Ancrum House (NAT).
OS 6" map, Roxburghshire, (1923).
[NT62NW 11.00 NT 6297 2505 Site of tower-house
NT62NW 11.01 NT 629 251 Site of Over Ancrum village, and field banks]
NT62NW 11.01 NT 62885 25555 North Lodge
NT62NW 11.02 NT 63223 25075 Estate Burn (Ancrum Park)
A late 19th century house which occupies the site of a castle erected by Robert Ker about 1558. The remains of this castle were incorporated in the predecessor of of the modern house, and were finally destroyed by fire in 1885.
The village of Over Ancrum, some of whose houses bore the date 1592, stood in the immediate vicinity on the north.
NSA 1845; A Jeffrey 1864; F H Groome (ed.) 1901.
The tower (see above) is mentioned, as still standing, in a letter written in 1632.
RCAHMS 1956.
No further information. As described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 10 December 1963.