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Field Visit
Date 3 June 1991
Event ID 1151273
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1151273
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Lochwood Castle, a motte-and-bailey overlain by a later stone castle, lies on the E side of a promontory about 600m long and 400m wide which thrusts northwards into an area of largely-unreclaimed moss. The motte stands to the N, immediately outside the precincts of the later castle. It has been fashioned from a natural mound up to 12m high on the N and E, and up to 6m high on the S and W, its elongated summit measuring 7m from N to S by 4m transversely. The nature of a number of terraces around the sides of the motte is unclear, although they may be the result of later landscaping.
On the S, the bailey is occupied by what remains of the stone castle, the principal feature of which is a late-15th-century L-plan tower-house surviving to first floor height above a vaulted ground floor. A substantial domestic range, its walls standing to a height of about 1.5m, occupies the E side of the courtyard, extending from the the tower-house to the base of the motte, and at its N end there is a well-preserved oven; two smaller buildings lie on the W and N sides respectively of the courtyard.
The site has been excavated and the remains of the buildings have been consolidated, but at the date of visit it was unclear whether some of the visible features had been created during the process of consolidation.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS), 3 June 1991.
Listed as motte-and-bailey and tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
