Archaeology Notes

Event ID 681437

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO06SE 1 08978 61692

(NO 0898 6169) Whitefield Castle (In Ruins) (NR)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)

Whitefield Castle is about identical in arrangement and size with Ashintully Castle (NO16SW) and also dates from the 16th century. It is of the L-plan with the wing projecting over both sides of the main building.

It is in a state of complete ruin. The slates were removed

and materials taken for building at the beginning of the 19th century.

MacGibbon and Ross 1892