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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720865

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/720865

NT63NW 12 64362 38375

(NT6435 3837) Whiteside Tower (NR) (In ruins)

OS 6" map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1909).

NMRS REFERENCE

Nothing remains of this structure except the vaulted basement. The tower has been a single rectangle in plan, 53' long by 25' wide, with walls 3' thick.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

ORDNANCE SURVEY

The vaulting remaining is now turf-covered. The remains, which are in a poor state of preservation, measure 16m by 7.5m, with walls 1.1m thick.

Visited by OS (JD) 23 May 1955.

The ruins of this structure are comparable with the 16th century Peel Towers of the Border (cf. Thirlestane, Berwick 20 NW 3; Corsbie, Berwick 26 NE 1 etc.) and probably date from this period.

Visited by OS (JLD) 26 May 1955

As described above.

Visited by OS (RDL) 14 September 1962.

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