Archaeology Notes

Event ID 722195

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT82NW 6 8039 2827.

(NT 8039 2827) Loch Tower (NR) (Site of).

OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1923).

Loch Tower, Yetholm Loch (Site). This tower, which stood on an island in Yetholm Loch and was reached by a causeway, was thrown down by the Earl of Surrey on the night of 17 May 1523 (Letters and Papers, Henry VIII). Nothing of the structure can be seen.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 22 October 1937.

No change.

Visited by OS(RD) 24 November 1967.