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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 683386
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683386
NO12SW 44 1203 2345
(NO 1203 2345) Site of Gowrie House (NR)
OS 25" map, (1932)
Gowrie House, 1525 and Scene of Gowrie Conspiracy 1600. The site is now partly occupied by the Northern portion of the County Prison and a part of the County Buildings. Some remains of it are still standing along the south side of the Water Vennel.
The Countess of Huntly who died in 1526, built Gowrie House between 1523 and 1526.
Name Book 1860.
Gowrie House in which the Gowrie conspiracy of 1600 took place was demolished in 1807. An earthen pot found in the process was donated to the Perth Museum in 1806 by the Provost Marshall.
Information from Trans Perth Lit Antiq Soc 1827, Vol. 1, 37, 80-1.
