Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731052
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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