Archaeology Notes
Event ID 720176
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT65NE 6 6834 5722
(NT 6834 5722) Peel (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1908).
Tower [NR]
(Remains of) [NAT
OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.
See also NT65NE 13.
Traditionally a tower of considerable strength, which belonged to the Sinclairs, stood here.
Name Book 1857.
The much-scattered remains of a four-sided courtyard wall of unmortared rubble masonry, 1.3m in maximum height, enclose a confused mass of earth and stones which cover the remains of the tower. The probable E wall can just be traced as a faint course, thus making the structure approximately 12.0m by 11.0m. The site is defended on the S and SW by precipitous slopes to the river; the rest of the site was protected by a ditch, now considerably silted up.
Visited by OS (JFC) 16 December 1954.
As described in the previous field report. The shallow ditch, 6.0m average width, is most pronounced on the E side of the tower, but fades out to the NW.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 30 October 1963.
The probable remains of a tower, possibly the predecessor of that described on NT65NE 13.
H M Brown 1959; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Scheduled as 'Rathburne House, tower house 180m NW of... the ruined remains of a rectangular tower and its associated barmkin enclosure...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.