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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 874457

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/874457

NJ54NE 7.00 55360 48459

(NJ 5540 4847) Rothiemay Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1904).

For related sites see:

NJ54NE 7.01 NJ 54807 48314 West Lodge

NJ54NE 7.02 NJ 55035 48276 Dovecot

NJ54NE 7.03 NJ 55122 48430 Kiln Barn

NJ54NE 7.04 NJ 55514 48168 Queen Mary's Bridge

NJ54NE 7.05 NJ 55099 48500 Mains of Rothiemay

NJ54NE 7.06 NJ 55514 48250 Kirktown

NJ54NE 7.07 NJ 55417 48587 Laundry

NJ54NE 7.08 NJ 55444 48501 Manse

NJ54NE 7.09 NJ 55480 48432 St Peter's Well

For (successor and present) Rothiemay House (NJ 55358 48447), see NJ54NE 11.00.

For successive locations of Pictish Symbol Stone removed to this building, see NJ54NE 25 (original location) and NJ54NW 1 (present location).

The site of the now ruinous (Huie 1956) castle still retains the appearance of a motte. The oldest portion of the structure is probably the eastern wing, which may date from the later 15th century; and the south wing is probably late 17th century; but the castle has been so much modernised, from the beginning of the 19th century, onwards that

it is almost impossible to identify the work of different periods.

What may have been the course of a former round angle tower was found immediately outside the SE corner of the castle in 1932.

The associated mill, first mentioned in 1492, appears to be very old, as parts of the building of Mains of Rothiemay, including a large kiln with a stone domed roof.

W D Simpson 1935; A C Huie 1956.

NJ 5535 4845. Only a bulldozed heap of rubble remains at the site of Rothiemay Castle. The building was demolished a fortnight ago (information from Mrs Thain, Mains of Rothiemay).

Visited by OS (RDL), 5 February 1964.

A house has been built on the site of the castle (NJ54NE 11.00).

Visited by OS (NKB), 16 January 1968.

Rothiemay Castle demolished 1964.

Rothiemay House built 1968.

Architect: Alterations, c1795. A Marshall MacKenzie additions, 1902 & 1912.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

A Pictish Symbol stone found at North Redhill NJ 560 467 many years before 1903, was removed to this castle. It is now at Whitestones House, NJ 5297 4705. See NJ54NE 25 for original site and NJ54NW 1 for present site.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

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