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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 733484
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/733484
NR72SW 42 centred 71987 20416
Campbeltown (name: NR 72 20) was founded by Archibald, 7th Earl of Argyll, who erected the castle of Lochhead (NR72SW 15) upon a site now occupied by the Castlehill Church in or about 1609, and simultaneously began to promote the settlement of Lowland incomers on ground nearby.
In 1667 the place was erected into a burgh of barony and in 1700 it became a royal burgh. Little is known of the early development of the town and the oldest surviving plan dates only from about 1760.
RCAHMS 1971.
