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Burnmouth Tower

Tower House (medieval)

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Burnmouth Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by age rather than modern praise. It may have watched roads, resisted rain or hidden people during troubled centuries. The tower still belongs to memory, waiting for someone brave enough to imagine its rooms without inventing facts about them.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Burnmouth Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Burnmouth Tower is a medieval tower house located in the Scottish Borders, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family for defensive purposes. It is remembered as an example of the type of stronghold used by Border reivers to protect against raids and assert local control.

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