Desk Based Assessment
Date 13 May 1968
Event ID 1015349
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015349
NS93NE 3.00 97482 39888
NS93NE 3.01 NS 9752 3993 Dovecot
(NS 9748 3988) Tower (NR) (remains of)
OS 25" map, (1972).
Castle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, (1957).
The motte at Covington marked a 12th century grant of land (W M Mackenzie 1927), presumably the motte on or near which the probably 15th century castle (Cruden 1960) / tower (Christison 1890) was built. The walls of the tower form the inner side of a trench (A, See D Christison plan etc) 8ft to 10ft wide and 2ft to 3ft deep on all sides except the N, where there is an entrance. They stand within and to the E side of an area 150ft square surrounded by a flat-bottomed trench (B) 5ft to 7ft deep, nearly obliterated on the N by farm buildings. The whole occupies the NW corner of an area, about 450ft by 350ft,
outlined by a trench (C) intact on the W side but mutilated by modern roads to S and E. A terrace (G) may be the remains of the old motte: the rectangular area (F) was 'no doubt' the garden. The trenches are, and always have been, dry (Christison 1890).
Information from OS (DT) 13 May 1968
See also MacGibbon and Ross 1897, 239-41.
