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Field Visit
Date November 1982
Event ID 1147509
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147509
Culzean Castle NS 232 102 NS21SW 1
An L-plan tower-house is incorporated in the late 18th-century mansion of Culzean Castle. The entrances to a system of caves in the cliffs below the castle are blocked by masonry of late-medieval date.
RCAHMS 1983, visited November 1982
(Grose 1789-91, ii, 209-10; Paterson 1863-6, ii, 294-5; Brown 1891, 156-7; Macfarlane 1906-8, ii, 9, 21; The Glasgow Spelaeological Society Newsletter, October and December 1966; NMRS, AYD/43/50-1).
