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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.

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