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Field Visit
Date January 1982
Event ID 1145948
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1145948
Peel of Kirkintilloch NS 651 740 NS67SE 8
All that remains of this castle is a rectangular motte, measuring 30m by 17m, with a broad ditch on its S and E sides. In 1732 Horsley reported that it had 'a double rampart of hewn stone, strongly cemented with lime' which was being quarried at the time of his visit.
RCAHMS 1982, visited January 1982
(Gordon 1726, 54, pl. 20; Horsley 1732, 168-9; Roy 1793, pl. xxxv; Horne 1910, 26-35; Macdonald 1934, 289-96; Johnston 1937, 5-9)
