Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653647
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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.