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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 661200
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661200
NH64NE 132 66445 46394
See also:
NH64NE 4 NH 6650 4635 Cromwell's Fort
There also remains the bottom part of the clock tower, re-roofed, and re-furnished with a clock.... this tower was extant in 1693....
J Fraser 1910.
The clock-tower, with the ruins of the rampart and a fragment of the barracks, still stands to witness to what was once a formidable fortress.
G Eyre-Todd 1923.
The clock tower still stands, in a good state of repair. It is an almost square tower (3.1m x 3.2m) of ashlar masonry with a string course c. 3.0m above ground level and is surmounted by a slated belfry with weather-vane There is a small rectangular doorway in the SE side. The clock and the bell are in good working order. The tower would appear to date from the 18th Century.
Visited by OS (W D J) 31 March 1960.
Descheduled (former no. 964).
Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 10 February 2003.
