Field Visit
Date 23 October 1908
Event ID 1088460
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088460
139. ‘Bite-About’, Printonan Hill.
At the north-east end of Printonan Hill, and some 500 yards north of West Prilltonan farm, are the scanty remains of a keep or bastel house. Its dimensions have been 64 feet long by 23 feet wide, with a projecting wing on the north near the north-east end 11 feet square. Only fragments of the basement walls remain, showing no signs of vaulting. The walls are 3 feet 6 inches thick.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 23rd October 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xxii. SE.