Site type TOWER HOUSE (POSSIBLE)
Canmore ID 67564
Site Number NY37SW 20
NGR NY 337 744
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish HALF MORTON
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District ANNANDALE AND ESKDALE
Former County DUMFRIES-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NY37SW 20 c. 337 744

Tower symbol and name 'Dame of Ye Bush' in approximately this area, on map of 1590.
J and R Hyslop 1912.

Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.

Ellis, H (1829a) 'Copy of a manuscript tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border topography of Scotland, AD 1590, with a platt or map of the Borders taken in the same year', Archaeologia, vol.22
Page(s): 161-2 pl. 21

Hyslop and Hyslop, J and R (1912) Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest times, Sunderland; Edinburgh; Glasgow
Page(s): 320 Held at RCAHMS D.3.12.LAN

RCAHMS (1997a) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh
Page(s): 314, no. 1464 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.DUM