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Lochletter Farm, Garden Pavilion
Motte (Medieval)(Possible), Pavilion (18th Century)
Site Name Lochletter Farm, Garden Pavilion
Classification Motte (Medieval)(Possible), Pavilion (18th Century)
Canmore ID 267748
Site Number NH42NW 11.01
NGR NH 43968 29754
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/267748
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH42NW 11.01 43968 29754
Field Visit (7 January 2017)
NH 43968 29754 (Canmore ID: 267748) This site is a prominent steep-sided and artificially-modified circular knoll, formerly enclosed within an extension to the 18th-century walled garden of Lochletter House. The building presently on top of the knoll is designated as a Category B listed 18th-century garden pavilion (LB49692).
A field visit on 7 January 2017 concluded that there may have been an earlier larger structure on top of the hill, possibly a medieval motte. There is some evidence of stonework remains on the top of the knoll which are seeming unrelated to the pavilion. Further investigation would be needed to prove this hypothesis.
Lochletter is named as one of the Crown Estates held by Sir Robert Chisholm, Constable of Urquhart Castle from 1359. John Grant, first of Corrimony, later received the estates in a royal charter of 1509 which references ‘the 40 shilling lands of Lochletter’ (Mackay, Glen Urquhart and Glenmoriston,1893).
James McComas – North of Scotland Archaeological Society
(Source: DES, Volume 18)
