Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690245

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO45NE 1 49346 59926.

(NO 4936 5993) Dayne Castle (NR) (mis-spelling)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Vayne Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)

Vayne Castle: The ruin of a 16th century Z-plan castle with one round and one square tower. A stair turret is inserted in the re-entrant angle of the NE tower with the E side of the main block.

The castle, now ruinous, having been used as a quarry for the building of the farmhouse, was built by the Lindsays, who acquired the barony of Vayne or Fearn in the early part of the 15th century.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92.

Vayne Castle is now ruinous, the western part in particular being in very poor condition. The walls, c.1.5m thick, of the eastern part are almost entire.

Visited by OS (JLD) 9 July 1958.