Archaeology Notes

Event ID 679604

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN91SW 6 94624 10988

(Name NN 9465 1097) Kincardine Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Kincardine Castle was the principal seat of the Grahams of Montrose, who acquired the estate c. 1250-1260. It was a quadrangular structure with walls 15ft thick, defended on three sides by a dry ditch with a fortified main gate and a draw-bridge over the ditch. It was destroyed in 1646 and only a fragment of a wall remained in 1899.

R S Fittis 1881; A G Reid 1899.

The sole remains of Kincardine Castle comprise a gable wall at NN 9466 1099, measuring 8.3m long, c. 7.0m high and c 0.6m thick. See GP.

Visited by OS (R D) 28 July 1967.