Archaeology Notes

Event ID 865507

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX95NW 31.00 91795 58836

Castle Farm

and remains of Auchenskeock Castle

Castle Farmhouse [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

NX95NW 31.01 Horse Gin

Location formerly entered as NX 91793 58842.

For Auchenskeock or Auchenskeoch Castle (situated within steading area, at NX 91742 58873), see NX95NW 2.

A courtyard farmstead, comprising five roofed buildings, one of which is a horse-engine (NX95NW 31.01) and two unroofed buildings annotated 'Sheds' is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1854, sheet 47). Four roofed buildings and one partially roofed building is shown on the OS 1:10000 map (1980).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 27 June 2000.