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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731052

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731052

NY47NW 5 4349 7902.

(NY 4349 7902) Harelaw Tower (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1957)

'Hector of ye Harelawe' tower, seen on a map of 1590, was the stronghold of Hector Armstrong, freebooter, who betrayed the Earl of Northumberland to the Regent Murray in the hope of reward. (Murray was assassinated in 1570 - NT07NW 39).

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1841 (J Donaldson); J and R Hyslop 1912

No trace of Harlaw Tower survives.

Visited by OS (RD) 18 December 1970

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