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Peel tower
Peel towers
(also spelt
pele
) are small fortified
keeps
or
tower houses
, built along the
English
and
Scottish
borders
in the
Scottish Marches
and
North of England
, intended as
watch towers
where
signal fire
s could be lit by the garrison to warn of approaching danger.
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