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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693015
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693015
NO99NW 9 9297 9671.
Older references name this site as 'House of Portlethen' but Mr Walker who removed the remains some years ago, states that it was a castle of the same style of architecture and period as Muchals Castle (NO89SE 6).
Name Book 1865.
No remains of this castle can now be found at the Mains of Portlethen.
Visited by OS November 1961.
Listed.
Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.
