Archaeology Notes

Event ID 855199

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Wellhouse Tower (NR) (Ruin) (NAT).

OS 1/500 plan, (1895); OS 1/1250 plan, (1947).

Built in 1362. All that remains is a stretch of walling extending some 50 feet NE from a circular bastion adjoining the NE corner of the Tower itself. Little more than the E end of the Tower remains, being two storeys in height. (RCAHMS 1951).

Visited by OS(JLD) 22 October 1953.

(NT 2508 7361). Portions of this Tower remain at the foot of the Castle crags.

The stretch of walling described above, has been stated on Midlothian 3 NE 1.29 as being a remnant of the Castle Wall, and does not appear to constitute part of the Tower itself.

Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

As described in previous field report.

Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.

NT 2511 7362 On the top of the NW corner of the first recess in the path up from the Water Tower is a corner block, of a string-course, laid upside down. The block is 0.15m thick, by 0.31m wide and around 1.24m long. Half of the edge is chamfered and carved with a series of equilateral triangles.

C A-Kelly 2000