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Field Visit

Date April 1979

Event ID 1131386

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131386

Old Petty NH 738 498 NH74NW 3

This motte has been scarped from a natural sand-hill 50m WSW of Petty church. It rises about 6m to a level summit measuring 18.6m by 14.9m and may have been the site of the 12th-century castle of Freskyn de Moravia.

RCAHMS 1979, visited April 1979

Meldrum 1975, 144

Petty NH 736 497 NH74NW 3

What may be a motte scarped from a natural sand-hill stands 200m WSW of Old Petty. The mound rises to a height of about 8m arid has a rounded summit measuring about 14m in diameter, while to the N and NE of the mound there are traces of a possible ditch.

RCAHMS 1979, visited April 1979

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