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Place Croft
Tower (Period Unassigned), Coin(S) (Period Unassigned), Cup (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Place Croft
Classification Tower (Period Unassigned), Coin(S) (Period Unassigned), Cup (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Castle Of Old Maud; Castle Of Auld Maud; Oldmad
Canmore ID 20644
Site Number NJ94NW 9
NGR NJ 9176 4695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20644
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish New Deer
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ94NW 9 9176 4695.
(NJ 9176 4695) Castle (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1959)
To the E of Place Croft are the remains of an apparently artificial mound, mostly destroyed by the construction of the Buchan Railway, when the foundations of a building were discovered on the summit. According to tradition, this was the Old Castle of Maud, said to have been the residence of the Earl Marischal. The foundations indicated that it was similar to Clackriach (NJ94NW 1).
Two or three old defaced coins and a stone cup were found by the workmen.
Name Book 1871; J Milne 1898
No trace of a castle. The "mound" appears to be part of a natural spur, cut through by the railway.
Visited by OS (RL) 4 April 1968
