Bombie

Gatehouse Classification - Not available

Has been described as a Possible Peel-house

There are no visible remains

NameBombie
Alternative NamesHopsrigg; Hopes Rigg
Medieval County
Historic CountryDumfriesshire
Modern AuthorityDumfries And Galloway
1974 AuthorityDumfries and Galloway
Civil ParishWesterkirk

A tower is indicated on a map of 1590 at either Hopsrig (NY 322 886) or Bombie (NY 319 886). (J and R Hyslop 1912)
No further information (M Robson, Wilton Lodge Museum).
Visited by OS (MJF) 1 November 1979.
There are no visible remains of the tower of Bombie that is recorded on a map of 1590. (RCAHMS 1981)
Listed as tower. (RCAHMS 1997) (Canmore)

Gatehouse Comments

Bombie is now a small cottage but on the 1752 map was a small complex of buildings

- Philip Davis

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY319886
Latitude55.18753
Longitude-3.07057
Eastings331900
Northings588600
Length
Width
Dimensions Comment
Vault
Vault Comment
Orientation
Orientation Comment
Wall Thickness 1
Wall Thickness 2
Map1590, A Platt of the opposete Borders of Scotland to ye west marches of England(The Aglionby Platt) British Library online Gallery and Old Cumbria Gazetteer (see also Gatehouse Essay 'The Aglionby Platt')
Roy Military Survey of Scotland 1747-55 British Library Maps C.9.b 6/1c online copy
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Books

  • Coventry, M., 2001, The castles of Scotland(Musselburgh) p. 93
  • RCAHMS, 1997, Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape(Edinburgh) p. 314 no. 1367
  • RCAHMS, 1981, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Ewesdale and Lower Eskdale, Annandale and Eskdale District, Dumfries and Galloway Region(RCAHMS Archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland 13) p. 22 no. 132
  • Hyslop, J. and Hyslop, R., 1912, Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest timesp. 359 online copy

Journals

  • Ellis, H., 1829, 'Copy of a manuscript tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border topography of Scotland, AD 1590, with a platt or map of the Borders taken in the same year' ArchaeologiaVol. 22 p. 161-71 online copy