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Gight Castle

Castle (Medieval)

Site Name Gight Castle

Classification Castle (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Formartine Castle

Canmore ID 19800

Site Number NJ83NW 4

NGR NJ 82648 39204

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Fyvie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ83NW 4.00 82648 39204

NJ83NW 4.01 NJ 8236 3939 dovecot

(NJ 8264 3920) Gight Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

One of a group of four contemporary Aberdeenshire castles (Craig, Delgaty and Towie Barclay are the others) almost certainly the work of the same master mason in the 16th century. There is no documentary evidence for its date, but it is said to have been erected between 1513 and 1570, and is mentioned as a 'tower and fortalice' in a charter of 1577.

W D Simpson 1930.

Gight Castle, the broken shell of an L-plan tower-house generally as described by Simpson (1930).

Visited by OS (AA) 29 January 1973.

This ruined castle is situated above a steep cliff down to the River Ythan.

[Ground and air photographic imagery, and newspaper/periodical references listed.]

NMRS, MS/712/36.

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