Field Visit
Date June 1983
Event ID 1156278
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156278
Noltland Castle HY 4292 4868 NY44NW
This Z-plan tower-house, probably begun c. 1560 by Gilbert Balfour but most likely left not quite finished, is one of the finest examples of a Scottish artillery-defended fortified residence. A courtyard range, probably seventeenth-century and more ruinous, adjoins it.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1983.
(Billings 1852; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, vol. 2, 213-21; Dietrichson 1906, 81-3 (Norwegian text), 74 (separately paginated English text, summary); RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 345-50, No. 1033; Simpson 1952; Cruden, 1963, 187-9; Dunbar 1966, 42, 56-7; OR 911).
