| 883378 |
RECORDING |
MEASURED SURVEY |
At the request of Historic Scotland, a measured survey of Lochindorb Castle was carried out by RCAHMS during 2009-10. The aim was to prepare phased plans of the site, profiles and a photographic record in order to provide a basis for the management of the site. In addition to refining the overall plan of the site and the two main phases of later 13th and 14th century dates respectively, four grassed-covered buildings were recorded in the courtyard and evidence was found for a primary hall and chamber range along the W curtain of the castle. Many parallels with the Comyn castle of Inverlochy were noted. [...] |
August 2009 |
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RECORDING |
MEASURED SURVEY |
RCAHMS surveyed Castle Law, Forgandenny between October 2009 - April 2010 producing a plan at a scale of 1:1000. Differential GPS was used to survey the site in October 2009 and the resulting linework was used to draw up the plan on-site between 19-20 April 2010. This plan was redrawn in vector graphics software. |
October 2009 |
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RECORDING |
FIELD VISIT |
Castle Law is situated on the northern escarpment of the Ochil Hills overlooking Strathearn, and at 280m OD, towers 200m above the valley below, commanding a panoramic view northwards from the NW round to the ENE. The outlook in other directions is less spectacular and the site is overlooked by Culteuchar Hill immediately to the SW. The fort is depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch-to-a-mile map (Perthshire 1866, sheets CIX & CX) and was mentioned in passing by Christian Maclagan in her volume The Hillforts, Stone Circles and other Structural Remains of Ancient Scotland (1875). In 1892 the fort was subject of an excavation by Edwin Weston Bell, a member of a merchant family and resident of Dundee who bred dogs at nearby Rossie. [...] |
April 2010 |
