Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721459

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX05NE 4 07743 55417

(NX 0773 5544) Garthland Tower (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1909)

A square tower, 45 feet high, bearing the date '1274' on its battlements, is described by Chalmers and the NSA. Andrew Symson (1684), says that it was "a good old strong house".

G Chalmers 1824; NSA 1845 (J Anderson); W Macfarlane 1908

No trace of the tower survives. The stone bearing the date '1274', although greatly defaced, has been built into the archway (at NX 0767 5547) between two buildings at Garthland Mains farm.

Visited by OS (RD) 21 February 1968

There are no visible remains of the tower-house which stood 44m NE of Garthland farmhouse. Three stones, each bearing a roll-moulding, which are incorporated in the external masonry at the SE angle of the farmsteading, are probably derived from the tower.

NSA 1845; OS 6-inch map, Wigtownshire, 1st ed. (1850), sheet 22; G Chalmers 1887-1902; W Macfarlane 1906-8; RCAHMS 1985, visited August 1984.