Field Visit
Date August 1979
Event ID 1040198
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1040198
The Wirk HY 3737 3020 HY33SE 17
At the NE corner of St Mary's churchyard (HY33SE 16), there is the debris-choked shell of a well-constructed stone tower with footings of a large hall-like building adjoining it to E. Tower resembles Cubbie Row's Castle (HY42NW 5) and is referred to as a 'fortalice' in a document of 1556. Architectural fragments found apparently in association with this structure are puzzling (see Introduction p. 10). Dietrichson's comparison with detached defensible bell-towers of Scandinavian churches deserves serious consideration.
RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1979
(Dietrichson 1906, 108-9; Marwick 1924, 17; Clouston 1931, 27-33; RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 191-2, No. 550; Cruden 1960, 21; Medieval Archaeol, 8, 1964, 240; Lamb 1980, 94; OR 486)
