Publication drawing; Plan of Lochwood Castle (The Mount) motte, tower-house and adjacent remains.

Description Publication drawing; Plan of Lochwood Castle (The Mount) motte, tower-house and adjacent remains.

Date 1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 382040

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 32528

Scope and Content Redrawn for publication from DC 33403. Plan showing The Mount, 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 15th-century tower-house. Erected in the 12th century, the motte has been shaped from a natural hillock. To the south lay the bailey, now overlain by the later 15th-century L-plan tower-house. An extensive range, probably two storeys high, extended from the tower to the motte. Lochwood was the principal seat of the Johnstones of Annandale from around 1180 until an accidental fire gutted the stone tower-house in the early 18th century. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Inv. fig. 225

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