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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 670456
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670456
NJ84NE 1 89688 49843
(NJ 8968 4984) Fedderate Castle (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map, (1959).
All that remains of Fedderate Castle is a portion of the walls, 30 feet high and 6 feet thick. It was surrounded partly by a ditch and partly by a morass now drained. A stone, removed from the castle c. 1830, now at Alehousehill, was dated 1257, thought to be the date of building.
Name Book 1871.
Fedderate Castle was formerly surrounded by a ditch and was reached by a causeway and drawbridge, traces of which were visible c.1790 (NSA 1845). The present remains are of an 'L' shaped building, 58' 8" x 44', probably late 15th century.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.
The remains of an L-shaped tower-house, as described above, and known locally as Fedderate Castle. No trace of ditch or causeway remains. Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 22 April 1968.
