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Field Visit
Date 20 July 1915
Event ID 1114371
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1114371
Catcune Castle.
The ruin of this house is situated on the estate of Harvieston, 150 yards north-west of Fushie Bridge Station, on the eastern bank of the Gore Water. It stands on an outcrop of igneous rock and has an ear-shaped excavated enclosure or depression to the west, which may have been part of the outworks, but is more likely to have been formed by quarrying, since recent trenching shows that a bed of coarse freestone similar to that employed in the building underlies the area.
The house is built of roughly coursed rubble, very friable and now much weather worn. It has been L-shaped on plan. The main block lies with its major axis north and south and measures 44 by 25 feet exteriorly, while the wing projects 22 feet westward in alignment with the north gable and is 20 feet broad. The building is very ruinous, but on the ground floor can be traced three vaulted cellars.
HISTORICAL NOTE. The lands of Catcune are included as a tenantry in the possessions of Sir William Sinclair (‘Sinclare’) of Roslin in 1527 (1). In 1652 John Sinclair of Roslin was returned heir to his father in the same lands (2).
RCAHMS 1929, visited 20 July 1915
(1) Reg. Mag. Sig., s.a., No. 527; (2) Inquis. Spec., Edin., No. 1027
