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Field Visit
Date 8 May 1996
Event ID 1013665
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013665
The site of the Castle of Lesmoir occupies a low-lying position in the valley of the Burn of Essie immediately S of the steading of Mains of Lesmoir. The site lies within an oval dry-walled enclosure flanked on both its SW and NE sides by small water-courses. Construction of a trackway and the insertion of two silage pits have heavily disturbed the interior of the enclosure. The only visible structural remains consist of a single course of stonework, measuring 3.7m long from E to W, in the S edge of the mound of spoil into which the western of the two pits has been sunk. A right-angled corner formed of masonry quoins, which can be seen towards the SE corner of the enclosure’s drystone wall, indicates that the present oval plan is a development of an earlier enclosure of different plan.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 8 May 1996.
