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Barnhills Tower A 16th century fortified tower house, now in ruins, standing in a woodland strip by Craigend Burn. This view from an adjacent field, shows gunloops on the outer walls of the ivy-clad ruin. The ground floor chamber was originally barrel-vaulted.

Шаблон:Use dmy dates Barnhills Tower was a 16th century tower house about Шаблон:Convert west of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, north of the River Teviot, on the high left bank of the Craigend Burn.[1][2]

History

The Turnbulls owned the property, which was burnt by the English in 1545,[1] by the Earl of Hertford, during the Rough Wooing, but it was still one of the houses appointed to watch the fords of the River Tweed in 1548-9.[2]

Older renderings of the castle name are “Barne helles” and “Barnehyll”.

Structure

All that remains of the castle is the vaulted basement, and trace of a stair in a corner[1] The tower is oblong, built of rubble, mainly freestone. It measured about Шаблон:Convert by Шаблон:Convert, the north-south axis being longer. The surviving windows have chamfered freestone dressings.[2]

The entrance was in the east wall, with three steps beyond leading down to the ground floor. A staircase ran southward in the thickness of the wall towards the south east angle, and there are traces of this.[2]

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 Coventry, Martin (2001). The Castles of Scotland. Musselburgh: Goblinshead. p. 73 Шаблон:ISBN
  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite web