Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679603

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN91SW 5 9434 1334.

(Name NN 9434 1334) Auchterarder Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Said to be a hunting seat of King Malcolm Kenmore (1057-1093) and to have been visited by Edward I in 1296. The castle was surrounded by a moat traces of which were still visible in 1899, when part of the donjon keep also remained. Presumably this was the 'remnant of wall' in the farm yard of Castle Mains mentioned in the ONB (1863). Stones from the castle have been used in neighbouring buildings.

OSA 1792; Name Book 1863; A G Reid 1899.

Part of the west and south walls, the former 5.5m high, of the keep are all that remain of Auchterarder Castle and are incoporated in a modern farm outbuilding. The published and only remains of the moat (south section) have been largely destroyed by landscaping.

Visited by OS (R D) 27 July 1967.