Field Visit
Date 12 December 1962
Event ID 919922
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/919922
The extant remains of a rectangular structure at the east end of Lady Hill, are all that survive of the castle. The ruin measures 19.6 x 10.6m and consists of thick rubble walls 2.5m thick with a maximum height at the north end of 2.6m. The top of the hill is considerably mutilated with hollows, and hollow-ways, presumably the result of quarrying materials for the construction of the Duke of Gordon's Monument, and the Observatory, both on the summit, but the latter now demolished. A large circular depression west of the NW corner of the castle is 0.5m. deep, and may also be the result of quarrying, or excavation. A fragment of an incised cross from the castle is in Elgin museum.
Visited by OS (R D L) 12 December 1962.
