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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 721188
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/721188
NT77SW 10 7351 7369.
(NT 7351 7369) Innerwick Castle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1959)
An apparently 15 - 16th century castle, occupying a rocky promontory cut off by a rock-hewn ditch 15ft deep and 18ft wide.
Only the lowest storey remains, the walls varying from 1 1/4 ft to 4ft in thickness, with the earlier portions of ashlar and the later of uncoursed rubble - but the castle is known to have been razed in 1402 or 1406 and rebuilt, and fired in 1547. Rock-cut mortices on either side of the ditch suggest the existence of a bridge leading to an entrance.
The site suggests itself for occupation at an early period.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913
The remains of Innerwick Castle are as described by the RCAHMS and are still impressive.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 March 1966
