Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720144

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT74SE 10 78312 43835

(NT 7831 4382) Leitholm Peel (NR) (rems of)

OS 1:10,000, (1972).

Leitholm Peel: The remains of a tower, to which tradition says the borderers were accustomed to drive their cattle for protection (New Statistical Account [NSA, R D Thomson] 1845). It was razed by the English in 1545 (M I Hope 1935). This peel has been rectangular, measuring 24ft by 30ft. The NW wall remains to a height of about 20ft and the side walls to rather less; the SE wall has been entirely demolished. There is a doorway on the ground level on the NE, which suggests a late date (M I Hope 1935). There are no signs of vaulting in the basement. The walls are 4ft thick, built of rubble with dressed sandstone quoins.

RCAHMS 1915.

The remains of this peel are still as described by the RCAHMS. No date stone is visible, but the type of construction and statements by authorities NSA 1845 and M I Hope 1935 indicate its existence early in the 16th century.

Visited by OS (JFC) 18 January 1955.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (RD) 14 July 1966.