Barnhills Tower
Barnhills Tower was a 16th century tower house about west of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, north of the River Teviot, on the high left bank of the Craigend Burn.Coventry, Martin (2001). ''The Castles of Scotland''. Musselburgh: Goblinshead. p. 73 History The Clan Turnbull, Turnbulls owned the property, which was burnt by the English national identity, English in 1545, by the Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 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. Older renderings of the castle name are “Barne helles” and “Barnehyll”. Structure All that remains of the castle is the Vault (architecture), vaulted basement, and trace of a stair in a corner The tower is oblong, built of rubble, mainly Freestone (masonry), freestone. It measured about by , the north-south axis being longer. The surviving windows have chamfered freestone dressings. The entrance was in th ...
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