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View of tower entrance.
A 45011
Description View of tower entrance.
Date 1985
Catalogue Number A 45011
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 381739
Scope and Content View of tower entrance, Lochwood, Dumfries and Galloway Situated on a promontory about 200m north of Lochwood steading are the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle, known locally as The Mount, which is partly overlain by the ruins of a late 15th-century tower-house. The entrance into the tower, which has roll-moulded jambs (some partially restored), opens onto a turnpike stair (left). The arched doorway on the right leads into the vaulted ground floor. Lochwood was the principal seat of the Johnstones, vassals of the Bruces, becoming a barony in 1542. Feuding with the Maxwells led to the castle being fired in 1585, though evidently restorations had been effected for the stay of James VI in 1592. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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