What is recorded here

Cockburn Tower is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, built for a clan whose name may mean a brook beside a hill or a wild bird. The stone still stands where Cockburn men once watched roads, fields and rivalries, while their crest shows a cock crowing and their motto says the song rouses others. That much is recorded. Whether the tower was a home, a guard post or a prize in border feuds is less certain, and the gap between those possibilities is where the place becomes alive.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cockburn 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.

Cockburn Tower, a medieval tower house in Scotland, was built by the Cockburn family, a prominent Border clan, likely in the late 15th or early 16th century. It is remembered as an example of defensive domestic architecture in the Scottish Borders during a period of frequent conflict with England.

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