Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667909

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ55SE 10 59102 52250

(NJ 5910 5225) Crombie Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Crombie Castle...has little or no appearance of a castle owing to the many alterations it has undergone. In the garden wall there is a stone which was taken from the castle bearing the initials and figures GM/MS 1678... but the date of its erection is unknown.

Name Book 1866.

The castle, whichis generally in good condition, appears to have originally been a tall rectangular building, to which has been added several wings. The two wings on the east do not seem to be contemporary with each other and the southern one is probably quite modern as it incorporates the stone mentioned above in the East wall. There is nothing to date the other wings which surround the older building,on all sides except the North.

Visited by OS (JTT) 14 September 1964.

Crombie Castle is basically an L-shaped 16th century tower-house, which has been modified and enlarged probably in the 17th century, with modern additions.

Visited by OS (NKB) 22 January 1968.