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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653647

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653647

ND16NW 8 1423 6713.

(ND 1423 6713) Castle of Haimer (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1971)

Castle of Haimer or Castle of Haimer (site of): There are some small portions visible and the farmer is still turning up part of its ruins. There is a stone taken out of the ruins, and now built into the farmhouse, on which is the date 1726.

Name Book, 1872

There is no trace of a castle at the site.

Visited by OS (E G C) 18 April 1962

No change to the previous field report. The stone dated 1726 was not located in the now semi-ruinous farmhouse.

Visited by OS (J M) 1 October 1981

Haimer Castle. A platform 10m in diameter and 1m high, with a circular, grass-covered stone structure with stone slabs in the centre. Eight courses of walling are visible on the NNW side, and the WSW side is cut into by a building.

R J Mercer 1981

Castle, of Haimer. No trace of the castle, the site of which now lies within the kailyard of a longhouse. The longhouse has been adapted to serve as a modern barn. Orientation NW-SE. Visited 1986.

R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995.

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