Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704248

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS77NW 18 7011 7818.

(NS 7011 7818) Motte (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1978)

Motte, Balcastle: This motte was fashioned from a natural knoll and varies in height from 3.6 to 12.2m, its roughly oval summit measuring 36.5 by 25.9m. It is flanked on three sides by streams and on the N by slight traces of a ditch about 5.5m broad. A track ascending the NE flank of the motte is unlikely to be original, and was no doubt made comparatively recently, when the top of the motte was periodically cultivated.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1953;

A motte, as described.

Visited by OS (JLD) 17 February 1954 and (JP) 16 January 1974