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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 672401

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/672401

NJ93NW 7.00 93495 37045

NJ93NW 7.01 9369 3739 Home Farm

NJ93NW 7.02 9360 3569 Mains of Arnage

NJ93NW 7.03 9457 3752 East Lodge

NJ93NW 7.04 9335 3588 South Lodge

NJ93NW 7.05 9341 3690 Garden

(NJ 9350 3705) Arnage Castle (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A Z-plan mansion to which additions have been made. It is supposed to have been built about 1650 (sic ? 1550 meant) on the site of an older keep.

Arnage was the property of the Cheynes until about 1630 after which it passed through various hands until acquired by the family of Ross of Arnage in 1702.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

Arnage Castle is in good condition and still occupied. The additions have masked much of the original work, but the W and E sides are still exposed. Flanking a blocked-up door in the E re-entrant angle are wide-mouthed gun ports and decorative shot holes, similar to those at the House of Schivas (NJ83NE 30), suggesting a date in the last half of the 16th century.

Visited by OS (A A) 1 March 1973.

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