Archaeology Notes

Event ID 681738

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO10SW 1 12890 04597

(NO 1289 0459) Burleigh Castle (NR)

(Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1950)

The keep appears to belong to the latter half of the 15th cent.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

The remains of Burleigh Castle consist of an early 16th century tower, 32ft 2ins by 27ft externally, with one wall and the SW tower of an enclosure wall built in 1582. The SW tower is entire and the north skew-put bears the date 1582 and initials S.I.B. & M.B. - evidently representing Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich, who died in 1583, and his wife Margaret Balfour.

On the west side the lines of a ditch can still be seen.

RCAHMS 1933.

As described above. On the west side of the castle the ditch appears as an irregular turfed-over depression about 25.0m long.

Earthwork surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (W D J), 19 December 1963.