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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 729450
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729450
NY07SW 1 0085 7258.
(NY 0085 7258) Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
One of the walls of the Border tower at Craigs remained to a height of a few feet in the 19th c. The name "Barnkin", still in use in the area and published on N.G. 6" sheet, is significant.
Name Book 1856-98
No trace of this tower remains.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 9 August 1965
