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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 732445
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/732445
NY49SE 4 4922 9161.
(NY 4922 9161) Foulshiels Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
This spot was indicated in 1858 by three local informants as the site of "Foulshiels Tower", said to have been a stronghold of the Elliotts.
Name Book 1858
At the published site, on a level shelf of an E-facing rough pasture slope, are the turf-covered remains of a stony mound approximately 18m in overall diameter and up to 1m high on the E side. A ragged depression about 12m square and 0.5m deep has been dug centrally within the mound, which is further confused by a late turf bank that crosses the low W edge. It is doubtful that this is the site of a building, and although no certain classification can be made, it may be the remains of a burial cairn.
Dr M Robson of Wilton Lodge Museum, has no information on this name, and doubts the existence of a strong house at this locality.
Visited by OS (JRL) 24 August 1979
