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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731196
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731196
NY47NW 7 4028 7966.
(NY 4028 7966) Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 25" map (1898)
For farmhouse and farmsteading of Outer Woodhead, see NY47NW 32.
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) mentions the site of a tower at Outer Woodhead using the NSA as authority. However, there is no mention of a tower at Outer Woodhead in the New Statistical Account (NSA).
Name Book 1858; NSA 1841 (J Donaldson)
There is no evidence of a tower at Woodhead.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 December 1970.
