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Branxholme, Tentyfoot Tower

Tower (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Branxholme, Tentyfoot Tower

Classification Tower (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Branxholme Castle

Canmore ID 231186

Site Number NT41SE 13.01

NGR NT 46439 11687

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/231186

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Hawick
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Roxburgh
  • Former County Roxburghshire

Site Management (24 November 2008)

This tower is part of the outer defences of Branxholme Castle. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry). A strengthening tower of the enceinte or walled castle courtyard (now incomplete) (Strang, Borders and Berwick, 1994 p.150)

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Photographic Survey (1956)

Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1956.

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