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Latitude: 55.2076 / 55°12'27"N
Longitude: -3.2003 / 3°12'0"W
OS Eastings: 323714
OS Northings: 591028
OS Grid: NY237910
Mapcode National: GBR 6827.Y1
Mapcode Global: WH6X8.TC7M
Entry Name: Tanlawhill,settlement 250m S of
Scheduled Date: 31 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4694
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships
Location: Eskdalemuir
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument is situated on a broad shelf on the NE flank of Hind Fell, 250m S of Tanlawhill House. It consists of about 10 rectangular buildings, one of which may be the remains of a tower house, a kiln and a number of enclosures. It dates to the medieval/post-medieval period. A rectangular area measuring 130m (N-S) and 100m (E-W) is proposed for scheduling. The greater part of the monument lies to the SW of a fence which crosses it some 15m to its NE.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument itself is of national importance to the themes of medieval/post-medieval rural settlement and economy. It is of special interest because of the likelihood that it contains remains of a small towerhouse, of a type known from documentary sources to have been common, but very rarely surviving.
Its status as a possible minor manorial complex, or at least as a large and apparently complex settlement, in relation to its smaller apparently contemporary neighbours will be of national importance to the studies of the organisation of the rural economy of the period. The monument has good and informative field characteristics.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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