Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730493

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY48SW 3 c. 444 800.

"Sime of Whitesside" tower is shown W of "Mereburne" (Muirburn) near its confluence with Liddel Water (NY 453 796) on a map of 1590.

(?Whitlawside: NY 444 800)

J and R Hyslop 1912

There is no local information about a tower in this area and although Dr Robson (Hawick Museum) suggests that there may have been a tower associated with Whitlawside (NY48SW 8), he has no positive record of it.

Visited by OS (MJF), 7 August 1979