Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718519

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT61SW 14 6468 1040.

(NT 6468 1040) Clessley Tower (NR) (Site of).

OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1924).

Clessley Tower (Site). No structural remains survive.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 25 August 1932.

Clessleypeel or Classleypeel: Two dilapidated cottages on the site of an ancient peel.

Name Book 1859.

This site occupies a much mutitated mound covered with the amorphous footings of walls and banks. It is impossible to distinguish between the possible remains of a tower and the footings of the cottages mentioned by ONB.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 8 February 1967.