Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728134

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX98NW 3 9159 8685.

Adjacent to the farm of Low Auldgirth, (NX 916 868) are the ruins of two contiguous walls, some 3 ft 6 in thick, of a small keep. The basement has been a simple barrel-vault.

RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913

NX 91598685. The site of this tower was pointed out on the ground by the landowner, Mr Kennedy, of Blackwood Estate. The remains were demolished in 1927.

Surveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975.