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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 719999
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT74SE 1 7750 4425.
(NT 7750 4425) Mersington Tower (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000, (1972).
No traces remain of this tower which stood about 1/2 mile SW of the present farm of Mersington. It was destroyed by the Earl of Hertford in 1545. It belonged originally to the Kerrs.
Name Book 1858; New Statistical Account (NSA) (J Thomson), 1845.
The site of this tower is on the highest point of an undulating pasture field. No remains are visible.
Visited by OS(JD) 29 January 1955
No further information.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
