Photographic copy of drawing showing East and West elevations. Digital image of C 47454 P
SC 798330
Description Photographic copy of drawing showing East and West elevations. Digital image of C 47454 P
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of the National Art Survey of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 798330
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 47454 P
Scope and Content Photographic copy of elevations of Craignethan Castle, South Lanarkshire This drawing dating from c.1900 shows the elevation of the entrance front (bottom, with wide-mouthed gunports near the bases of the walls), and of the south side (not east as marked) of the castle. A house was formed in the 17th century in the south-west corner of the outer courtyard. During the 1960s a major programme of consolidation and excavation at Craignethan Castle revealed that the defences had been on a scale unmatched in 16th-century Scotland. Excavation and consolidation continued in the 1970s and 1980s, with the castle now open to the public and in the care of Historic Scotland. Craignethan Castle was built in the 1530s by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, as an artillery fortification, on a promontory surrounded on three sides by the River Nethan. It was taken in 1579 by forces of the Regent Moray, and the defences slighted. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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