Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Stonehouse Tower

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Stonehouse Tower

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Canmore ID 66975

Site Number NY26NE 10

NGR NY 2958 6824

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66975

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
Canmore Disclaimer. © Copyright and database right 2024.

Toggle Aerial | View on large map

Digital Images

Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Gretna
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY26NE 10 2958 6824.

(NY 2958 6824) Stonehouse Tower (NR) (Site of)

OS 6-inch map, 1957.

One of the numerous border towers which may have been built under an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1535 that required landed men to raise such defences.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1841 (J Roddick); Clan Lindsay Society 1911 (No.2, 208)

Nothing to be seen on the ground at this site.

Visited by OS (RD) 16 October 1967.

Activities

Note (1997)

NY 2958 6824 NY26NE 10

Listed as tower.

RCAHMS 1997.

References

MyCanmore Image Contributions


Contribute an Image

MyCanmore Text Contributions