What is recorded here

Garthland Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its exact position known to the nearest metre. Whether it guarded a border road, stored grain for a local clan, or simply gave one family a tall place to watch the weather, the stones still point upward like a finger pressing through time.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Garthland Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Garthland Tower is a medieval tower house located in the Scottish Borders, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the region during the turbulent period of Anglo-Scottish border conflicts.

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