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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 797284
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/797284
NJ73NW 23 702 357
(Location cited as NJ 7026 3572). Blackford (mentioned in 1654, 1702 and 1723). Site of manor; remains of mansion house. Writing in 1723, William Walker reported that 'Blakfoord is a pretty new house, built after the English modell, anno MDCCXXII...'. It then belonged to Alexander Forbes, whode father had bought the estate of Blackford from his father-in-law, Alexander Gellie, in c. 1702. A possession of the Forbeses until 1851, it appears that during the 16th century and probably earlier, Blackford had belonged to a branch of the garden family.
Early in the 19th century, Alexander Forbes' 'fine new house' seems to have been replaced by a new mansion; unroofed in the 1940's, the central portion of this has since been converted for use as a modern house.
[Additional bibliography cited].
NMRS, MS/712/95.
W Kennedy 1818; J Robertson 1818.
