But The Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 18th Century, (vol.IV, Edinburgh, 1892) says that it was by then "a mere fragment of an ancient castle; a place of some importance in the Border wars."
Allerdings schreibt der Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 18th Century, das es damals „das schiere Fragment einer alten Burg, ein Ort von einiger Bedeutung in den Grenzkriegen,“ war.