Archaeology Notes

Event ID 712058

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT17NE 4 19092 76963

(NT 1909 7695) Cramond Tower (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map (1968)

Cramond Tower probably dates from the late 15th - early 16th century; it measures 21'8" N-S by 24'9" E-W, with a circular stair-tower projecting from the SE angle. It is now free-standing, four storeys high, but at sundry periods outbuildings of various heights have been erected against the N, E and W walls, though these have disappeared. It is not in a good state of preservation (N Tranter 1963). The tower must have been built by the Bishops of Dunkeld.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1921; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889

No change to previous information.

Visited by OS (BS) 11 December 1975

Now restored and occupied.

N Tranter 1990.