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Flemington Tower is a ruined tower house situated in Angus, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM5447. The tower stands on bedrock of the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a Pragian formation of sandstone interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone that has weathered to form the local landscape. This geological foundation provided both building stone and shaped the terrain surrounding the monument.
Tower houses of this type were common across lowland Scotland from the 15th century onwards, serving as fortified domestic residences for landholding families. Constructed from the readily available local sandstone, such towers combined practical defence with the display of status and authority. Flemington Tower's location in Angus places it within a region where such structures were particularly prevalent during the medieval and early modern periods.
The monument survives today in ruined form, its remains testimony to centuries of Scottish domestic architecture and the territorial significance of the locality. The preservation of the site under modern heritage protection recognises its importance as a record of historical settlement patterns and building practices in the region, grounded in the solid foundation of Angus's ancient geology.
Flemington Tower,Aberlemno is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5447. View the official record →
Flemington Tower is a ruined tower house situated in Angus, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM5447.
Flemington Tower,Aberlemno is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5447.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Westerton,standing stone 120m W of (3.7 km), Balgavies Castle (4.3 km), Guthrie Hill,cairn (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Flemington Tower,Aberlemno's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Flemington Tower,Aberlemno stands on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.