Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689758

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO50SW 15 50842 00687

(NO 5084 0070) Ardross Castle (NR)

(Remains of)

OS 6" map (1938).

Location formerly entered as NO 5084 0070.

For (presumably-associated) dovecot (NO 50763 00753), see NO50SW 16.

The remains of Ardross Castle, consisting of two very ruinous rectangular structures contiguous to each other, stand 1 mile E of Elie on the raised beach 40' above the shore.

The N structure is possibly 15th century and the earlier of the two. It has been excavated, revealing a small tower, 28 3/4' N-S by 36 3/4' E-W over walls in excess of 6' thick. The entrance is in the S gable. There has been a small building against the N gable.

The second structure measures 78' N-S by 19' E-W within walls 6' thick. It lies to the S of the tower and is attached to it by the remains of a short wall. At the SE angle there may have been a circled stair tower. William Dishington, son of the Sir William who died c.1360, doubtless built Ardross Castle.

W Wood 1887; RCAHMS 1933.

The remains of the castle are as described.

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (DWR) 29 May 1974.

Ardross Castle [NAR]

(remains of) [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, October 2010.