Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713240

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 1.06 25171 73515.

Portcullis Chamber (NR) (Portcullis gate built 1574-See 3NE1.4).

OS 1/1250 plan.

Name changed from Argyle Lower and State Prison.

Information from OS.

The Portcullis Chamber is situated above the Portcullis Gate; the east side of this building is of the Scottish Classic Renaissance character peculiar to this period.

J S Richardson and M Wood 1948.

(NT 2517 7351) As described above. No information contained in RCAHMS 1951.

Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

As described in previous information.

Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.