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Loch Tower, Yetholm Loch


Organisation

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

Canmore ID

59318

Site Type

TOWER

County

ROXBURGHSHIRE

Parish

YETHOLM

Council

SCOTTISH BORDERS, THE

NGR

NT 8039 2827

Latitude, Longitude

55.547736N, 2.312354W

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Archaeological Notes
NT82NW 6 8039 2827.

(NT 8039 2827) Loch Tower (NR) (Site of).
OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1923).

Loch Tower, Yetholm Loch (Site). This tower, which stood on an island in Yetholm Loch and was reached by a causeway, was thrown down by the Earl of Surrey on the night of 17 May 1523 (Letters and Papers, Henry VIII). Nothing of the structure can be seen.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 22 October 1937.

No change.
Visited by OS(RD) 24 November 1967.

Related Material Information - Bibliographical References


Great Britain - Public Record Office (1862-1932) Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, London.
RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, Edinburgh. Held at RCAHMS: A.1.1.INV/14