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Whiteside Tower
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Whiteside Tower
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 49955
Site Number NT14NE 16
NGR NT 1644 4630
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49955
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Newlands
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT14NE 16 1644 4630.
(NT 1644 4630) Whiteside Tower (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1967)
Except, perhaps, for a number of large blocks of rubble masonry, there are now no structural remains of this tower. Its overall dimensions are uncertain, but the walls appear to have been 3'9" thick. Immediately S of the tower site there are the remains of a range of out-buildings, evidently later than the tower itself.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958
At this site - an amorphous turf-covered mound c.14m in diameter and 1.6m high - are several displaced blocks of lime-mortared rubble, but it is not possible to establish the original size or shape of the tower.
Visited by OS (JP) 7 January 1975
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
