What is recorded here

Timpendean Tower is a ruined 15th-century Douglas stronghold near Jedburgh, built with walls four feet thick above older Roman earthworks. English troops burned it in 1545, but the stone frame still stands beside a farm track, marking a valley where fortifications kept returning across centuries.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Timpendean Tower as Cultivation Remains (period Unassigned), Earthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval), Coin (roman). 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.

Timpendean Tower is a medieval tower house in East Lothian, Scotland, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as a surviving example of a defensive domestic structure from Scotland's late medieval period.

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