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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713566

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713566

NT29SW 5 2115 9136.

(NT 2116 9136) Ruins of Camilla formerly Hallyards (NR)

OS 6"map, (1920)

Hallyards Castle - Some fragments of walling and a few mounds rising within a ploughed field represent all that remains of Hallyards Castle, which has evidently been an extensive house of the 16th or 17th century, built round a courtyard measuring 123 by 87 feet over all. A somewhat less ruinous structure at the north east corner is possibly of later date. Part of a gable, still standing at the south east corner, indicates that here the building has been a vaulted ground floor and at least two upper floors, with a lean-to structure or'to fall.'

RCAHMS 1933.

After the death of Philip Skene in 1788, the name of Hallyards was changed to Camilla.

A H Millar 1895.

The ruins of Camilla, formerly Hallyards, are as described by RCAHMS; they are now very fragmentary and overgrown.

Visited by OS (W D J) 11 March 1959.

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