Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670134

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ74NE 5 769 490.

(NJ 769 490) Idoch Castle (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Idoch Castle is supposed to have been built during the 14th century. The last vestige of the foundations was removed in 1850, when a large quantity of human bones and ashes was discovered.

Name Book 1871.

Mr Copland of Edinburgh has provided a translation of item 2869 from the Great Register of Scotland which refers to the Castle and Lands of Idoch.

Information contained in a letter to RCAHMS from Mr Copland, Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, 28 January 1991