Archaeology Notes

Event ID 726725

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX65SE 9 68220 53259

(NX 6822 5325) Compstone Castle (NR) (in ruins)

OS 6" map (1854)

Cumstoun Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1946)

For successor and present Cumstoun House and associated buildings, see NX65SE 116.00.

Cumstoun Castle is an oblong building 26 feet by 15 feet 10 inches, within walls averaging 5 feet 9 inches in thickness. It originally contained a basement and three upper storeys and the SW wall still stands to a height of 25 feet. The NE wall has been demolished and the side walls are ruinous. The castle is probably early 16th century, and is recorded in a charter of 1604-5.

RCAHMS 1914; R C Reid 1934.

Cumstoun Castle

(remains of) [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.