Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687457

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO31SE 23.00 35229 14339

NO31SW 23.01 NO 34979 14354 Dovecot

(NO 3522 1433) Carslogie House (NR) (In Ruins)

OS 6"map, (1938)

Carslogie House. This building has been at least three storeys and an attic in height, and the plan shows an oblong, measuring 49 1/4 feet from east to west by 29 1/4 feet while on the north there has been a projecting wing apparently of later date, now removed. On the west is an enclosure the gateway of which can still be traced.

The house, which is in a bad state of repair, "has been ascribed to the 16th century, mainly on the evidence of a dormer pediment, now lying within the ground floor, which bears the date 1590 and the initials of George Clephane of Carslogie and of his wife Katherine Orme. The internal arrangment however, would suggest a rather later period. There are..many indicati- ons of an extensive alteration, but these, so far as they can be dated are of the 18th cenutry. The cartshed 150 yards to the north east contains a lintel inscribed, 17 DC 1C 10 for David Clephane and his wife Joanna Colville. This probably came from the house.

A single chambered, rectangular dovecot, with crow-stepped gables and one string course, lies a little west of the farmhouse.

RCAHMS 1933.

Carslogie House is as described by RCAHMS (1933), and is in a ruinous condition. The walls are 1.6m thick, and the barrel vaulted ground floor remains intact.

The enclosure wall can be traced as a grass-covered bank, but the entrance was not located.

The dovecot measuring 8m by 5m, is of rubble, and is now roofed with corrguated iron, and the lintel, in the cartshed, is as described.

The pediment, said to lie within the ground floor of the house, was not found, but is probably hidden by the rubbish and fallen masonry.

Visited by OS (D S) 1 November 1956.

Generally as described by the above authorities but part of the SE wall of the house has collapsed since 1956. The dovecot is now roofless.

Earthworks surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R D L) 21 May 1964.