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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689758
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689758
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.
