Publication Account

Date 1980

Event ID 1017909

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017909

It is probable that the de Morevilles had a fortress built on the site now occupied by Thirlestane Castle. Some historians believe that this fort was incorporated into the latter-day Thirlestane Castle (Cruft, 1970, 88), but others do not agree (MacGibbon and Ross, 1971, iv, 335). The present Thirlestane Castle was rebuilt by Chancellor Maitland (created Lord Thirlestane in 1590) at the end of the sixteenth century, and alterations were made by his immediate successors in the seventeenth century. The Castle was greatly enlarged in the nineteenth century (MacGibbon, 1971, iv, 339).

Information from ‘Historic Lauder: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1980).