Detail of gun-loop
SC 400757
Description Detail of gun-loop
Date 1967
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 400757
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of RC 400
Scope and Content Gun-port, 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. This is one of the castle's many wide-mouthed gun-ports designed to give a hand-gun as wide a field of fire as possible. However, they were probably intended for show as much as for defence. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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