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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689533
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689533
NO49NW 17 4433 9952
(NO 4433 9952) Tolbooth (NR)
OS 6"map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902).
See also NO49NW 34.
A small circular island believed to have been used as a prison for the nearby castle (NO49NW 16). There can still be seen wooden stakes driven vertically into it.
Name Book 1866.
A wholly artificial crannog 25 yards by 21 yards and 8 1/2 feet high, formed by oak piles with interlacing horizontal beams and stone infilling It is now overgrown. It pre-dates the nearby castle, but it has probably been enlarged during the time the castle was occupied. It is believed that it was used as the prison of the castle.
J G Michie 1910.
A crannog now measuring 20.0m by 14.0m and 1.2m in height consisting of small boulders. No oak piling nor any other artificial features can be seen.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 November 1968.
Listed.
Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.
