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Gillesbie Tower is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The structure represents a typical defensive residence of the period, when such towers served as strongholds for local landholding families in the Borders region. Built during an era of considerable military and social instability in the Scottish Marches, the tower exemplifies the architectural response of regional gentry to the need for secure domestic accommodation. The monument survives as a significant example of late medieval Scottish military domestic architecture.
Gillesbie Tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM10433. View the official record →
Gillesbie Tower is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM10433.
Gillesbie Tower 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 SM10433.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Firtree Hill,fort (4.4 km), Cowburn, burnt mounds 1027m SE of (5.6 km), Little Hartfell, stone circle 1010m NNW of Whitcastles Cottage (6.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Gillesbie Tower'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.
Gillesbie Tower stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.