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Field Visit
Date 15 March 1990
Event ID 1151250
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1151250
NT 0505 0402 NT00SE 1
(Also classified as settlement). This motte-and-bailey castle has been fashioned from a natural hillock. The highest point of the hillock has been dressed to form an elongated motte, its level summit measuring 32.5m from NNW to SSE by 10.8m transversely, whilst a terrace on the N, 10m below the summit of the motte, has been utilised to create a bailey measuring 33.9m from WNW to ESE by 13.8m transversely. On the E, S and W, at the level of the bailey, the motte is enclosed by a stony bank 2.2m thick and 0.8m high. Around the base of both the motte and the bailey, on the N, W and SW, there is a ditch 6m broad and 2m deep accompanied by an external bank 4m thick and 1.5m high; the purpose of a break in the bank on the N, 11m broad, is unclear.
Visited by RCAHMS (PC), 15 May 1990.
(RCAHMS 1920)
Listed as motte-and-bailey.
RCAHMS 1997.
