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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 708668
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/708668
NT00SE 1 0505 0402.
(NT 0505 0402) Mote and Bailey (NR)
OS 6"map, (1957)
For successor Auchen Castle (NT 0632 0350), see NT00SE 3.00. Not to be confused with Garpol Water, moated site, (NT 0529 0396), for which see NT00SE 2.
A prominent flat-topped hillock fashioned into a motte on a lower bailey platform, and surrounded by a deep trench and outer mound. Encircling the motte some 7' above the bottom of the trench is a stone-parapeted terrace, 5' wide except on the NE, where it broadens to form a small base court.
RCAHMS 1920, Visited 1912
This motte and bailey is generally as planned by RCAHMS. The summit of the motte measures 30.5m NW-SE by 11.5m and the base-court measures 36.0m NW-SE by 14.0m.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (D W R) 18 September 1973
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (T R G) 22 September 1978
