Field Visit
Date 4 October 1912
Event ID 1132105
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1132105
Mote of Annan.
This mote (fig. 9, plan) is in the garden of a villa known as 'Moat House' on the west side of the town of Annan. A low meadow, from which it rises with a steep scarp, intervenes for a distance of 100 yards or thereby between it and the River Annan The mote proper forms the northern extremity of the construction, rising to an elevation of some 50 feet and measuring 22 feet across its level summit by 50 feet length wise. Abroad trench separates it from the base-court, which extends southward for a distance of 270 feet in an irregular oblong, expanding from a breadth of 50 feet at its northern end to 110 feet at the south and rising to an elevation of 60 feet above the meadow on the west and 35 feet above the higher levels on the east and south. The mote has been surrounded on the sides away from the river by a trench, as also probably was the base court, but the lines of the whole construction have been seriously interfered with in the formation of the villa garden. (See Introd., pp. xxxi.-ii.)
RCAHMS 1920, visited 4 October 1912.
OS 6" map, Dumf., 2nd ed, (1900).
