Archaeology Notes

Event ID 727511

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX86NE 2.00 86945 68295

NX86NE 2.01 NX 86950 68291 (adjacent) farmhouse

(NX 8695 6829) Drumcoltran Tower (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Drumcoltran Tower dates from the 16th century and comprises a rectangular block, 34 ft E-W by 26 ft 8 ins transversely, with a projecting staircase wing, 15 ft 3 ins by 8 ft 4 ins. The staircase wing may be secondary.

The tower, used as a farm store, is connected to a house to the W by a passage.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887; RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; V G Childe and W D Simpson 1954

Drumcoltran Tower (MOPBW plaque) is of outstanding architectural importance and has been restored by Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (MOPBW). It is no longer connected to the nearby building.

Visited by OS (JP) 17 July 1969.

Scheduled as 'Drumcoltran Castle (Tower)... the 16th-century towerhouse of Drumcoltran, and a small area of ground associated with it.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 19 December 2002.