Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687128

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO25SE 4 2634 5392

(Centred NO 2635 5403) Moat (NR) (Track of)

OS 6" map (1862)

See also NO25SE 2.

A slight hollow immediately west of Easter Peel farmhouse is locally believed to be a remnant of the moat which surrounded the castle of Sir Alan Durward, who was active during the reign of Alexander III (1249-86). Its ruins were visible in 1794 and the farm-house is believed to stand on its site.

This was presumably the Peel of Lintrathen where the Durwards kept the Bell of St Madden (NO25SE 3) until their male line died out c.1400

(See also NO25SE 2 - Deer Park)

OSA 1794; Name Book 1863; NSA 1843 (F Cannan); A J Warden 1884; D Fraser 1956

There is no trace of a moat round Easter Peel farm-house which occupies what would be a poor site for a castle. To the south of the farm, however, at NO 2634 5392 is a more suitable site - a low, disturbed knoll within a sub-rectangular enclosure, which is apparent as a crop- mark on AP (RAF/CPE.Scot.UK.267:3205), but is visible on the ground

only as a spread, unsurveyable hollow on the west.

Surveyed at 25" from AP.

Visited by OS (JP) 29 September 1970