What is recorded here
Wester Alemoor stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house later fitted with a seventeenth-century gun emplacement, marking the shift from private defence to open battlefield. Stone walls that once watched a valley for thieves may have later pointed cannons at invading armies, forcing residents to choose between hiding behind brick or firing through it. The ground keeps both eras compressed into one outline, where domestic life and wartime violence share the same foundation.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Wester Alemoor as Gun Emplacement (17th Century), Site (period Unassigned), 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.
Wester Alemoor was a medieval tower house later modified in the 17th century as a gun emplacement, reflecting its strategic military importance in the region. Its remains are recorded in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment.
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