Interior-detail of double-check door-jamb at entrance doorway
SC 400753
Description Interior-detail of double-check door-jamb at entrance doorway
Date 1967
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 400753
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of RC 404
Scope and Content Yett-pintles, Kinkell Castle, near Conon Bridge, Highland Kinkell Castle was built after 1582 when the surrounding lands passed to John Mackenzie of Gairloch. It was extended in about 1700, probably lowered by one floor in 1770, altered in 1855 by William Munro, and finally restored in 1969-70 by Gerald Laing. Inside the entrance are two sets of iron pintles (left on image) that originally supported twin yetts. A pintle is part of the hinge system where the pintle - attached to the wall - presents a metal peg onto which a hollow metal hinge - affixed to the door - is hung. A yett is an extremely strong door made of interlaced iron bars. It could be that the larger pintle supported a metal yett and the smaller pintle supported a heavy wooden door. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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