Archaeology Notes

Event ID 677022

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677022

NN62SW 2.00 60178 22661

NN62SW 2.01 60186 22453 Mausoleum

NN62SW 2.02 60193 22428 Bridge

(NN 6017 2265) Edinample Castle (NR)

OS 6" map (1901)

Though the old part of Edinample Castle appears to be a late 16th century Z-planned fortalice, internal evidence suggests that a smaller, earlier tower is incorporated in the E part of the building. The fortalice consists of a main block, 43ft by 27ft, four storeys and a garret high, with a round tower, 23ft in diameter, at the NW and SE angles. It was internally recast and the roofs modified about 1790; later, a two-storeyed combined porch and stairway was erected against the N front, also a four-storeyed addition was made to the S, completely enclosing the SE tower, which is still extant, within the main building.

N Tranter 1963; SDD List 1964; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892

Edinample Castle is as described and in a good state of preservation.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 December 1968

At present unoccupied, the castle is being extensively renovated.

Visited by OS (JRL) 22 March 1979