Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668432

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ63SE 25 6760 3126

For nearby and successor country house, see NJ63SE 38.00.

(NJ 6761 3131) Freefield House (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

(NJ 6760 3126). A mansion house of the Leith's dated 1754, which replaced a castle once situated about 50yds in front of it. Gordon's map, dated 1654, shows a castle here, but its date of erection can not be traced.

Name Book 1869.

No trace and no local knowledge of the earlier castle, and no further information.

Visited by OS (NKB) 27 March 1969.

There are no visible remains of a castle at Freefield; the present mansion dates to the mid-18th century and later.

Visited by RCAHMS (IF, JRS), 21 February 1996.