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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 774310
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/774310
NJ16SE 39 16322 62962
Tomb [NAT]
York Tower [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1970.
For surrounding fort and discovery of window-glass in 1997 excavations, see NJ16SE 11.
Air photographs: AAS/97/06/G10/5-6 and AAS/97/06/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/29.
This is an octagonal tower, about fifty feet high, erected 1827 on the highest point of the Knock of Alves, by one of the late proprietors of the estate of Newton.
OS Name Book 1868-71
