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Tower-of-sark

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Tower-of-sark

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Kinmont's Tower; Sark Tower

Canmore ID 67538

Site Number NY37NW 5

NGR NY 33374 75079

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NY37NW 5 3337 7507.

(NY 3337 7507) Tower (NR) (Site of)

OS 25" map (1900)

For modern farmsteading of Tower-of-Sark (NY 3339 7503), see NY37NW 46.

Kinmont's Tower of Sark, or Morton, is shown on a map of 1590. It was here that Buccleuch made final plans to rescue Kinmont Willie from Carlisle Castle in 1596.

J and R Hyslop 1912

There is now no trace of this tower, referred to as 'Sark Tower' by the local farmer.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1970

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Field Visit (November 1980)

Tower-of-Sark NY c. 334 750 NY37NW 5

Nothing can be seen of what is variously known as Sark, Morton or Kinmont's Tower; it is depicted on a map of 1590 and is locally said to have stood about 100m E of Tower-of-Sark farmhouse.

RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980

(Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 251, 320,357; Graham 1914, 136)

Note (1997)

NY 3337 7507 NY37NW 5

Listed as tower.

RCAHMS 1997.

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