Photographic copy of drawing showing general plan. Digital image of D 7446 P
SC 798337
Description Photographic copy of drawing showing general plan. Digital image of D 7446 P
Date 1956
Catalogue Number SC 798337
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 7446 P
Scope and Content Photographic copy of plan of Craignethan Castle, South Lanarkshire This plan, drawn in 1956 by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, shows Craignethan Castle before the ditch in the middle was excavated. Note the great thickness of the walls of the tower of 'The Keep'. The ranges in the south-west corner of the outer courtyard (bottom right) were built as a dwelling house in the 17th century. 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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