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Field Visit
Date 2012
Event ID 993147
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/993147
NS 3976 6816 This site is recorded on the 1st Edition OS and an estate plan of Houston dated c1770 held by the National Library of Scotland, as ‘Sewn Castle’, and elsewhere as ‘Castle Swin’. It is a dun-like crag of striated basalt on the boundary of Wellees and Cleaves Farms, on the Peter’s Burn, above a drained pond. What could be an entrance at the NW corner and a tumble of shaped stone on the S slope are probably natural. The personal name 'Swine’ (Suibhne, Sveinn) occurs in two other local place names and appears to be a folk name.
Funder: Stuart Nisbet and Alan Steel
Stuart Nisbet,
Alan Steel,
2012
