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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668060
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668060
NJ56SE 2 55579 63797
(NJ 5557 6380) Castle of Fordyce (1592) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Fordyce Castle stands in the centre of the village of that name and was built in 1592.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.
The original building consisted of a three-storey tower with a projecting wing and, at a later date another wing of three storeys was added against one wall of the tower, forming a separate house. The whole group now split up into temements, remains practically unaltered since erection.
O Hill 1947.
The castle of Fordyce is as described by MacGibbon and Ross (1887-92) and Hill (1947). The building is in a good state of
preservation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 September 1961.
No change.
Visited by OS (NKB) 7 August 1967.
