Detail of Well Head.
AG 756
Description Detail of Well Head.
Date 1965
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AG 756
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 366597
Scope and Content Detail of wellhead at Skipness Castle, Argyll and Bute Skipness Castle occupies a position of considerable strategic importance, overlooking the confluence of Loch Fyne, Kilbrannan Sound and the Sound of Bute. This well was probably constructed to supply the early 13th century hall-house. As the only internal source of water within the castle, the well remained in use as Skipness was enlarged throughout the 13th and 14th centuries. Skipness Castle was begun before 1261 by the MacSweens, lost to Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, in 1262, inherited by Robert II, then granted to the Lords of the Isles in 1376. On their forfeiture in 1493, it went to the Campbell Earls of Argyll. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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