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Field Visit
Date 5 July 1989
Event ID 1112740
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112740
There are no remains visible of a 17th-century laird's house at Fullarton, although the site might be that noted by Mackay, some 180m to the SE of the Free Church manse (NO 292 439). A number of dressed and moulded stones incorporated into South West Fullarton steading (NO24SE 76), however, have probably come from the house. These include chamfered window rybats and a pediment bearing a shield (a crosslet fitchee) and the initials DME, Dame Margaret Erskine, widow of Sir William Fullarton of Ardo, who is mentioned in a bond of 1620. Three other pediments removed from the steading are incorporated in the front and end-wall of a house in Meigle (NO 2972 4465: see NO24SE 70).
The house and policies are depicted by Roy and, although both were removed sometime prior to 1867, traces of the layout of the policies are revealed by cropmarks (NO24SE 61); sherds of 17th-century pottery were recovered from a number of excavated ditch sections. Formerly the property of the Lindsays, in 1598 the barony was sold to Sir William Fullerton of Ardo and was erected a free barony in 1608. The family ran up serious debts and their lands were apprised from them in 1656, and, although a third William Fullerton obtained a charter of the barony in 1687, in 1697 it passed once more to the Lindsays of Spynie.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 5 July 1989.
W Roy 1745-7; A Mackay 1876; A Jervise 1882; Reg Mag Sig; P Strong 1987.
