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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 720529
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/720529
NT65SE 2 66116 52565.
(NT 6611 5256) Evelaw Tower (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, (1957).
Evelaw Tower, a small, ruinous, 16th century fortalice, is still fairly entire to the wallhead. It is three storeys and a garret in height and L-shaped on plan. The angles are rounded, but corbelled out to the square at eaves-level. There are wide splayed gunloops in the S and E fronts. Farm buildings adjoin and abut to the N, screening that front and the re-entrant. The basement and, unusually, the top storey are vaulted.
N Tranter 1970; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889.
When visited in 1955 and 1963, Evelaw Tower was in a similar condition to that described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JFC) 15 February 1955 and (WDJ) 7 November 1963.
The tower is generally as described although parts are in imminent danger of collapse.
Visited by OS (MJF) 11 May 1979.
