Archaeology Notes

Event ID 875169

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/875169

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(NN 8657 6618) Blair Castle: Cumin's Tower (NR)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

NN86NE 5.01 NN 86444 66216 Garden and Terrace; Statues

NN86NE 5.02 NN 87027 66343 Walled Garden; Greenhouses; Gate; Statues

NN86NE 5.03 NN 87276 65451 Front Lodge

NN86NE 5.04 NN 87028 66274 Statue of Hercules

NN86NE 5.05 NN 86488 66182 Walled Garden, Sundial

NN86NE 5.06 NN c 865 664 The Obelisk

NN86NE 5.07 NN 86504 66445 Statue of Diana

NN86NE 5.08 NN 86235 67220 Lady Jean's Well

See also:

NN86NE 44 NN 869 662 Enclosure (possible)

NN86NE 45 NN 867 657 Ring-ditch (possible)

NN86NE 46 NN 869 657 Ring-ditch (possible)

Blair Castle, the traditional seat of the Dukes of Atholl, is exceedingly large, having grown through numerous phases and extensions and undergone three major reconstructions in style. The last reconstruction copied earlier styles so that it is impossible, without close inspection, to determine where ancient work ceases and modern begins - the more so as the entire building is harled and whitewashed. John Comyn of Badenoch is stated to have begun to build a fortalice at Blair in 1269. Comyn's or Cumming's Tower is still so called, but only the foundations can represent this stronghold.

N Tranter 1962-70.

As described by Tranter. The names Blair Castle and Cumin's Tower verified.

Visited by OS (R D) 15 September 1967.