More information : Liddel Strength, an earthwork castle, was surveyed by RCHME at 1:500 scale; the original plan and field account can be consulted in the NMR archive.
Contained within the inner ward of the work at NY 4018 7418 are the severely reduced remains of a pele tower, surviving as a turf-covered bank, up to 0.9 m high internally, enclosing an irregular sub-rectangular area, about 8 m NW-SE by 5 m transversely. No wall faces or any structural remains are exposed; probing revealed some stone content but this was inconclusive.
The tower was last seen in the late 18th century as the foundations of a square building (1a-1b); Roy's plan of 1752 (1c) shows at this position the roofless remains of a building, measuring about 13 m NE-
SW by 8 m transversely within a wall some 2 m thick. The tower was
probably erected some time after the destruction of the castle in
1346, and went out of use in the late 16th century. (1d)
This record was previously recorded as part of the earthwork castle
record NMR no NY 47 SW 1. (1) |