Archaeology Notes

Event ID 683014

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO14NE 23 1774 4888

(NO 1774 4888) Lady Lindsay's Castle (NR) (Site of)

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

The scene of the imprisonment of Lady Lindsay, a daughter of the house of Crawford "some centuries ago", according to the legend.

The ruins of a circular tower could be traced in 1843 (NSA 1843) but the only evidence of the castle on the ground c.1865 was a small raised bank more oval than circular, covered with grass. (Name Book 1865)

"Lady Lindsay's Castle " occupies a secluded wooded promontory above a deep gorge in Glen Ericht. The approach from the W has been partly blocked by a ditch c.6.0m wide and 1.5m deep, isolating a sub-rectangular area about 24.0m WNW-ESE by 17.0m. Here stand the footings of two rectangular buildings, one a vague levelled platform showing no sign of stonework, and the other the over-grown stump of a small but strong tower, measuring c.6.0m NE-SW by 4.0m within a wall some 2.0m thick surviving to a maximum height of 0.7m in the NE. This is probably the alleged circular tower. The base course of the outer wall face is visible for most of the SW side but elsewhere only an odd facing stone can be detected under the thick coating of turf. The NW side is partially destroyed.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (AA) 8 February 1974