Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719597

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT72NW 13 7144 2648.

(NT 7142 2644) Moss Tower (NR) (Site of).

OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1924).

Moss Tower (Site).

This tower was cast down by Dacre in 1523 (Letters and Papers, Henry VIII), and nothing now remains but some slight indications of a plan resembling that of Littledean Tower (RCAHMS 1956, No.558). Repaired as

a "strang hows", it was besieged, taken, and burnt in 1544. Hamilton Papers, J Bain ed. 1892).

RCAHMS 1956, visited 22 March 1933.

The only remains of Moss Tower are three courses of an angle tower (at NT 7144 2648) of the barmkin walls and a portion of a narrow wall projecting from it. The tower measures 5.8m in diameter, over wall 0.9m. thick.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(RD) 16 December 1967.