Scheduled Monument

Hallbar Tower, barmkinSM1148

Status: Designated

Documents

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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

Summary

Date Added
28/04/1920
Last Date Amended
07/02/2005
Type
Secular: tower
Local Authority
South Lanarkshire
Parish
Carluke
NGR
NS 83918 47102
Coordinates
283918, 647102

Description

The monument consists of a barmkin adjacent to Hallbar towerhouse built around 1581 and repaired in 1861. The tower itself is excluded from the scheduling, while the barmkin remains scheduled.The monument was first scheduled in 1920 and rescheduled in 1994 and 2001. The barmkin alone is being rescheduled in order to clarify the extent of the scheduled area, as there are significant changes in the Ordnance Survey mapping of the monument.

The barmkin is located to the SW of the tower; it is roughly triangular in shape (36m long by a maximum of 20m wide), occupying the plateau of a promontory formed by the confluence of two stream beds.

The scheduled area includes the barmkin and an area around in which remains associated with its construction and use are likely to survive. It measures a maximum of c70m NE-SW by c48m NW-SE. It is defined on the N and NE by the SE and SW walls of Hallbar tower (which are specifically excluded) and by the S edge of a track, on the W and NW by the boundary wall/fence and on the SW and SE by Braidwood Burn, as shown in red on the accompanying map.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is of national importance as the remains of a well-defined barmkin enclosure of an important towerhouse. The extent of the barmkin is well-defined by the constraints of the topography and therefore complete. It retains considerable potential to provide important information regarding the ancillary and domestic support functions for the laird and the towerhouse, contained within the barmkin enclosure.

References

Bibliography

RCAHMS records this monument as NS84NW 11.

About Scheduled Monuments

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Scheduling is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for monuments and archaeological sites of national importance as set out in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

We schedule sites and monuments that are found to be of national importance using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Scheduled monument records provide an indication of the national importance of the scheduled monument which has been identified by the description and map. The description and map (see ‘legal documents’ above) showing the scheduled area is the designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The statement of national importance and additional information provided are supplementary and provided for general information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within the statement of national importance or additional information. These records are not definitive historical or archaeological accounts or a complete description of the monument(s).

The format of scheduled monument records has changed over time. Earlier records will usually be brief. Some information will not have been recorded and the map will not be to current standards. Even if what is described and what is mapped has changed, the monument is still scheduled.

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