Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694754

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO77NE 2.00 79498 75071

(NO 7952 7505) Arbuthnott House (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959).

NO77NE 2.01 centred on 7951 7505 Arbuthnott House, designed landscape Park

NO77NE 2.02 79504 75146 North Bridge

NO77NE 2.03 79479 75712 Main Gate

NO77NE 2.04 79247 75401 Doocot

See also:

NO77NE 70 Centred NO 7900 7535 Tree-lined avenue

Arthbuthnott House bears the date 1588 on a skew-putt stone among the old buildings.

A Jervise 1875-9.

Arbuthnott House, originally a rectangular tower-house dated 1588, and considerably extended in 1660, 1754 and 1810 (information from Viscount Arbuthnott, Arbuthnott House) now presents no external appearance of antiquity. However, beneath the tower-house and the outbuildings to the NE are barrel-vaulted chambers, considered by Simpson (information from W D Simpson, King's College, Aberdeen) to incorporate earlier 14th century masonry.

The house, which is still occupied, is believed to occupy the site of a motte.

Visited by OS (NKB), 10 January 1968.