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Field Visit
Date 17 October 1908
Event ID 1088200
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088200
25. Bastel House, Carfrae.
At the end of the garden adjoining the farm-house of Carfrae are the ruined remains of a bastel house still standing as high as the first floor. It has a round tower, which has contained the staircase, in the south-east corner. Access to this has been by a doorway from the east of the two vaulted apartments in the basement. Length of frontage, 35 feet; of east wall, including diameter of tower (18 feet), 29 feet 6 inches.
See History of Channelkirk, p.654.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 17 October 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xiii. NE (unnoted).
