What is recorded here
Andrew Battyes' Tower rises in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its exact position marked only to the nearest hundred metres. The borderland around it has always favoured secrecy, and a tower built for defense may have watched roads, rivers or raids that no longer leave traces.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records 'andrew Battyes' Tower' as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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