Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718330

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT55NW 9 50182 55078

(NT 5018 5507) Peel (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1957)

The remains of a peel (A Allan 1900) or bastle, standing to first floor height and having a round stair turret in the SE angle are close to the present farmhouse at Carfrae.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908

The overgrown remains, standing to first floor height, are of rubble masonry and measure 10.5m x 5.5m. They are divided into two compartments. The stair tower is 4.0m in diameter.

Visited by OS (JD) 15 February 1955 and (SFS) 11 August 1975