Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732359

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY37NW 5 3337 7507.

(NY 3337 7507) Tower (NR) (Site of)

OS 25" map (1900)

For modern farmsteading of Tower-of-Sark (NY 3339 7503), see NY37NW 46.

Kinmont's Tower of Sark, or Morton, is shown on a map of 1590. It was here that Buccleuch made final plans to rescue Kinmont Willie from Carlisle Castle in 1596.

J and R Hyslop 1912

There is now no trace of this tower, referred to as 'Sark Tower' by the local farmer.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1970